Transaction 61d55eda300853eba1b9e8a2d8c104cd48a5d7f6f843b3208fd169a70bbefee0

Block #163947

2012-01-26 15:23:21 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.041 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 04e86f214f0291012c4d4d3d3dd99acf80ae229f3a7e622fff0308cd60cd56115f10f333dc733133aea0982e6f0100000000000000

Outputs

41047cb83395941923cc2c5be981d392d5a461bf4e7cd8ce024e28939e5909faa5b1c44da8c6d9633cfa21f9405d91c0e8301f062f9c751b0f45115fb2f8a6d8148aac

047cb83395941923cc2c5be981d392d5a461bf4e7cd8ce024e28939e5909faa5b1c44da8c6d9633cfa21f9405d91c0e8301f062f9c751b0f45115fb2f8a6d8148a 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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  "hash": "61d55eda300853eba1b9e8a2d8c104cd48a5d7f6f843b3208fd169a70bbefee0",
  "version": 1,
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  "weight": 720,
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