Transaction a1e8d244dff813e5fd44c3e84a1542be970b163a2598a3f5be62f72f2a8075ff

Block #164248

2012-01-28 16:29:08 +0000 UTC (~13 years, 1 month ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.014 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 043522244f002c4d4d3d3d416b9ec1ebc5ad08598dbf0e21dd57ed647a0653ed8cbe4c2cf0d9c0de26e1e90100000000000000

Outputs

2102c4112b601e3c2fde981390cf357c6dc65dfdcae7f119783b618dadd06b44bc25ac

02c4112b601e3c2fde981390cf357c6dc65dfdcae7f119783b618dadd06b44bc25 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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  "hash": "a1e8d244dff813e5fd44c3e84a1542be970b163a2598a3f5be62f72f2a8075ff",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 146,
  "vsize": 146,
  "weight": 584,
  "locktime": 0,
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      },
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        "height": 0,
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      },
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      "sequence": 4294967295
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  ],
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    {
      "value": "50.00000000",
      "n": 0,
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        "desc": "pk(02c4112b601e3c2fde981390cf357c6dc65dfdcae7f119783b618dadd06b44bc25)#3dcj8c3n",
        "hex": "2102c4112b601e3c2fde981390cf357c6dc65dfdcae7f119783b618dadd06b44bc25ac",
        "type": "pubkey"
      }
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  ],
  "fee": "",
  "hex": "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff33043522244f002c4d4d3d3d416b9ec1ebc5ad08598dbf0e21dd57ed647a0653ed8cbe4c2cf0d9c0de26e1e90100000000000000ffffffff0100f2052a01000000232102c4112b601e3c2fde981390cf357c6dc65dfdcae7f119783b618dadd06b44bc25ac00000000"
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