Transaction 8a462b431ae23711e6cdbb4e8d6fa8a22f13a6406f05b9c7473afc482eb40a21

Block #163791

2012-01-25 10:15:31 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.015 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 0441d61f4f01072c4d4d3d3d7a96afd5385a78fc3e3d6a7bb08586c6ba954a430a80c9d2104800380ddd27620100000000000000

Outputs

210306468e6ece5484ab23daa3714f70d7b3c084d9eff64b08246118c0549a777b7eac

0306468e6ece5484ab23daa3714f70d7b3c084d9eff64b08246118c0549a777b7e 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,
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  "hex": "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff340441d61f4f01072c4d4d3d3d7a96afd5385a78fc3e3d6a7bb08586c6ba954a430a80c9d2104800380ddd27620100000000000000ffffffff0100f2052a0100000023210306468e6ece5484ab23daa3714f70d7b3c084d9eff64b08246118c0549a777b7eac00000000"
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