Transaction 661a8288755867e40bc4491e96e8c7e905fa116d6a2d2a90c5d47139cdee0dc4

Block #806828

2023-09-09 03:58:24 +0000 UTC (~9 months, 24 days ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.00000546 BTC🔥

Inputs

bc1pe998s240egqlya5zygvflvynyt6gnw92gpg8y0c5me5f82sjhphqsfvlp8

1 c94a782aafca01f2768222189fb09322f489b8aa4050723f14de6893aa12b86e witness_v1_taproot

Outputs

1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 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": "f01066dfb779c8f40d1d9c17c77dad1f196944bcdc2f4f83763c7cbbb0948f3e",
  "version": 2,
  "size": 432,
  "vsize": 172,
  "weight": 687,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
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      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "",
        "hex": ""
      },
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      ],
      "prevout": {
        "generated": false,
        "height": 806828,
        "value": "0.00003298",
        "scriptPubKey": {
          "asm": "1 c94a782aafca01f2768222189fb09322f489b8aa4050723f14de6893aa12b86e",
          "desc": "rawtr(c94a782aafca01f2768222189fb09322f489b8aa4050723f14de6893aa12b86e)#h9jxwyv0",
          "hex": "5120c94a782aafca01f2768222189fb09322f489b8aa4050723f14de6893aa12b86e",
          "address": "bc1pe998s240egqlya5zygvflvynyt6gnw92gpg8y0c5me5f82sjhphqsfvlp8",
          "type": "witness_v1_taproot"
        }
      },
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": "0.00000546",
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "desc": "addr(1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE)#6yunqau7",
        "hex": "76a914759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f988ac",
        "address": "1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fee": "0.00002752",
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}