Transaction 6961886f6dde96a8fa574a6ef3c5a1ab89faae2ec572ef42589a1b4fb84bd6ba

Block #168596

2012-02-26 15:21:59 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 4 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0065 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 04174e4a4f02eb0b062f503253482f

Outputs

21027f12836c8cdaf378235ed4a67a96dff5751e3db651266be037b9e0869825feb5ac

027f12836c8cdaf378235ed4a67a96dff5751e3db651266be037b9e0869825feb5 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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  "version": 1,
  "size": 110,
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