Transaction a212f871aaf6898c625850ff16f02a24b2761e405b97754f3f06ddb294acb214

Block #163017

2012-01-20 10:17:01 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0995 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 041b3f194f01112c4d4d3d3d3e61afff9067e02adb79ab1770f3403d2d56b46546f22e1402bcca8d4ec7ffc50100000000000000062f503253482f

Outputs

4104b2ab711627af52a62b3d3d97db549e75d1033eb0fa1dd91d41fd82971e2e747b9e73cca137dc64fea0591a5df70b63c5dc134b6cdd8e821bb073943b023e4cdbac

04b2ab711627af52a62b3d3d97db549e75d1033eb0fa1dd91d41fd82971e2e747b9e73cca137dc64fea0591a5df70b63c5dc134b6cdd8e821bb073943b023e4cdb 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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