Transaction 652367e4b5879c2707eef5a27c82416102669f7ec784d63141962a4a1c73365d
Block #202824
2012-10-11 15:00:31 +0000 UTC (~11 years, 10 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.08 BTC🔥
How did this transaction burn BTC?
The 0x00 Public Key Address
The 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh address is a Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) address that is derived from a public key that solely contains the byte 0x00. This is the point at infinity on the secp256k1 elliptic curve, and is not a permitted public key1.
This results in any BTC sent to this address being irrevocably lost, as it is impossible to generate a signature that will validate against the 0x00 public key.
Over the years, a handful of bugs2 in wallet applications have resulted in users inadvertently sending BTC to this address.
ECDSA Incompatibility
The Bitcoin Protocol relies on the secp256k1 elliptic curve for its cryptographic operations. This curve belongs to the larger family of elliptic curves.
Bitcoin also employs a number of hashing operations such as SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160. These operations are used in various places across the protocol, including in the creation of addresses and their corresponding Bitcoin Scripts.
In some cases, it is possible to select values that are invalid for the secp256k1 curve as inputs to the hashing operations. This can lead to unexpected results, such as the creation of addresses that can be used to receive BTC, but are never able to spend it.
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"hash": "652367e4b5879c2707eef5a27c82416102669f7ec784d63141962a4a1c73365d",
"version": 1,
"size": 225,
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"weight": 900,
"locktime": 0,
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"height": 202816,
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 3da1eb7a296e462a9c07bb522a5fe6bd5cca9124 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(16ctC69xhhnSK3MdvN29hcTSFXCQnEn9th)#r63x2at0",
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}
},
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 f7527d05f43c24bdc1e477436127c6956befae9d OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1PYiimw3QMLcmEmeiHsGSu8isMir4rzgfh)#3ey7vnqk",
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 9f7fd096d37ed2c0e3f7f0cfc924beef4ffceb68 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh)#gvyw8dzc",
"hex": "76a9149f7fd096d37ed2c0e3f7f0cfc924beef4ffceb6888ac",
"address": "1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh",
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}
}
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