Transaction 59c79eac600e8e5fe14e76d5ee1b539bbd6bf34579374a402a4488be4eedc078

Block #279496

2014-01-09 14:13:28 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 7 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.5 BTC🔥

Inputs

148U3XZTz4UHYkQ7VdkbDzfFpo5ToDadtX

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 2251dd29a70d5ee63e691102a69bac9e2402e0dc OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

Outputs

1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

How did this transaction burn BTC?

Burn Address

Bitcoin addresses are generated by base58 or bech32 encoding the hash of a public key or script, along with a version and checksum.

As the encoding is directly performed on this hash value, it is possible to generate a valid address for which the pre-image public key or script is unknown. This is known as a burn address.

This is commonly done to create a visually distinct address, and to demonstrate some level of “nothing up my sleeve” transparency. The hash values are picked to be values that are improbably to have been generated by chance (due to the immense computational power required to find a pre-image that hashes to a specific value).

While some burn addresses were used in Proof-of-Burn schemes, the majority of burn addresses are simply vanity addresses used to simply burn coins or encode a message into the blockchain.

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Raw Transaction

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  "hash": "59c79eac600e8e5fe14e76d5ee1b539bbd6bf34579374a402a4488be4eedc078",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 224,
  "vsize": 224,
  "weight": 896,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
    {
      "txid": "147251b850c1f7a8297f23877bd8a4afaba94f32b902459a197325111bac79be",
      "vout": 0,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "304502203da6675b580850f8b529c94e36eb0272f47d4658069960d74c08c4470006a644022100b81f94479c4011791b1196a5438000bf17ec1a3ebc09cd7d4aa5f9472be5622a[ALL] 0465f446f307bdb3456aff85acbe120d8a3926b4eb8f3d4604e54d233a78b4b4faf6f564b7c84cde6beddbd64bf711a525fd93530f4180d1cda12c56d12a929c4b",
        "hex": "48304502203da6675b580850f8b529c94e36eb0272f47d4658069960d74c08c4470006a644022100b81f94479c4011791b1196a5438000bf17ec1a3ebc09cd7d4aa5f9472be5622a01410465f446f307bdb3456aff85acbe120d8a3926b4eb8f3d4604e54d233a78b4b4faf6f564b7c84cde6beddbd64bf711a525fd93530f4180d1cda12c56d12a929c4b"
      },
      "prevout": {
        "generated": false,
        "height": 279490,
        "value": "0.50010000",
        "scriptPubKey": {
          "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 2251dd29a70d5ee63e691102a69bac9e2402e0dc OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
          "desc": "addr(148U3XZTz4UHYkQ7VdkbDzfFpo5ToDadtX)#ejzz8335",
          "hex": "76a9142251dd29a70d5ee63e691102a69bac9e2402e0dc88ac",
          "address": "148U3XZTz4UHYkQ7VdkbDzfFpo5ToDadtX",
          "type": "pubkeyhash"
        }
      },
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": "0.50000000",
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "desc": "addr(1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr)#v66r8cp2",
        "hex": "76a914818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f817982188ac",
        "address": "1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fee": "0.00010000",
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}