Transaction a62ae495b89422243cd3fae96155427e3b8a272b4aad4cb3e5e3569886342db9
Block #283652
2014-02-01 22:45:57 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 6 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥1 BTC🔥
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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"weight": 900,
"locktime": 0,
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}
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"scriptPubKey": {
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