Transaction a50d0ce55f5500c1cb75659dddbae465a9b5041cf7085bb5faf26da3908d557f

Block #164143

2012-01-27 23:27:33 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.041 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 043fd40c1a03560401122f503253482f42495031362f736c7573682f522cfabe6d6d37c79b327bd315bcbcdc970dfb1987d174741b937a2d5da363440f26acc40f250100000000000000

Outputs

4104ef7ad0411b0d5fa2215b469dde0abb74a43800852455553504a1579b98f97c6eb6de2d28aa8a03b242d7d32d0a8a05cd81916610afb097a408eca535cdaba1fdac

04ef7ad0411b0d5fa2215b469dde0abb74a43800852455553504a1579b98f97c6eb6de2d28aa8a03b242d7d32d0a8a05cd81916610afb097a408eca535cdaba1fd 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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