Transaction 7bc076db39050c46e981b5995e94c49473260e561cad31899b14f33d523aa0ae

Block #283557

2014-02-01 11:11:22 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 6 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0107 BTC🔥


Inputs
1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns
0.01089 BTC
now $662.49
0.01089 BTC
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 73435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b17 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash
Outputs
1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
0.0107 BTC
now $650.93
🔥0.0107 BTC🔥
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash
1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns
0.00009 BTC
now $5.48
0.00009 BTC
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 73435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b17 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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  "txid": "7bc076db39050c46e981b5995e94c49473260e561cad31899b14f33d523aa0ae",
  "hash": "7bc076db39050c46e981b5995e94c49473260e561cad31899b14f33d523aa0ae",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 227,
  "vsize": 227,
  "weight": 908,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
    {
      "txid": "3d4ea82f12795e97c5c6a77bb6d547bcabebe92db487debb658225da48ff9d64",
      "vout": 0,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "3046022100a233b5993b27dc57ed90a508a3dd77bd5e3f1505ade7fc6e0f8cb00798acd7e7022100ac19279142465422f77d4e14c7b5f6eae8327f90123ac55a8330dce1d5dbcca6[ALL] 02483809a031597a37e4a60ad154e983fa6131a8cd70c3e49c05dc729a8a3c3f54",
        "hex": "493046022100a233b5993b27dc57ed90a508a3dd77bd5e3f1505ade7fc6e0f8cb00798acd7e7022100ac19279142465422f77d4e14c7b5f6eae8327f90123ac55a8330dce1d5dbcca6012102483809a031597a37e4a60ad154e983fa6131a8cd70c3e49c05dc729a8a3c3f54"
      },
      "prevout": {
        "generated": false,
        "height": 282724,
        "value": "0.01089000",
        "scriptPubKey": {
          "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 73435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b17 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
          "desc": "addr(1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns)#w8lnwe85",
          "hex": "76a91473435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b1788ac",
          "address": "1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns",
          "type": "pubkeyhash"
        }
      },
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": "0.01070000",
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "desc": "addr(1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr)#v66r8cp2",
        "hex": "76a914818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f817982188ac",
        "address": "1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    },
    {
      "value": "0.00009000",
      "n": 1,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 73435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b17 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "desc": "addr(1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns)#w8lnwe85",
        "hex": "76a91473435bf2a31db6584730ae611297c5a9d8dd4b1788ac",
        "address": "1BWTQFx6DPy1cPaJs5HFLAzzahjqPjmCns",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fee": "0.00010000",
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}