Transaction 5b3ec558ff49613fc004449890fd6f9294fbe0770c96b9c3107c7c88ae0134da

Block #163615

2012-01-24 06:53:48 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.05211463 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 0477551e4f02fe002c4d4d3d3dac925814a2a53eec300a98db5ad665acea69bdf515865b0a10f65ef428fcb1760100000000000000062f503253482f

Outputs

4104e444b35b15f8fe818f2c4062ef5d6ddb2fa0cfc65b9be5ade4cb7034bbe58dc527adff7df39b9d5d3caf41a8b133c9612340a1304f5fd4cd4a92ff6ddac9c4cfac

04e444b35b15f8fe818f2c4062ef5d6ddb2fa0cfc65b9be5ade4cb7034bbe58dc527adff7df39b9d5d3caf41a8b133c9612340a1304f5fd4cd4a92ff6ddac9c4cf OP_CHECKSIG pubkey

How did this transaction burn BTC?

Coinbase Reward Loss

For a variety of reasons, some blocks do not claim their full block reward.

The Bitcoin Protocol and reference Bitcoin Core implementation only require that the sum of all outputs in the coinbase transaction are less than or equal to block subsidy + transaction fees for that block. They don’t require that all of this entitlement is claimed by the miner.

Over the years, numerous misconfigurations and bugs in the systems used by miners to generate block templates have resulted in under-claiming of the block reward. Not only is this a loss to the miner, but it also reduces the total supply of Bitcoin that will ever be mined. There is no mechanism to claim unclaimed rewards after the block in which they were supposed to be claimed.

On rarer occasions, bugs in the reference implementation itself have led to losses - notably, the Genesis Block, Block 91722, and Block 91812 block rewards were claimed but destroyed due to bugs in the Bitcoin Core implementation at that time.

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Raw Transaction

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