Transaction a662ee09c2472f3f3e78c5b50ff5a8f1b9acdfea0c3a73db7e8f8bc0bbb1e2f2

Block #216507

2013-01-14 11:51:05 +0000 UTC (~11 years, 7 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.001 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 03bb4d030650f3f1260fee

Outputs

14aHscQewy4PvrJ21DQNWWN6o5BknqFdvN

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 27343049981fef6c2c8b3c02486e0bebc71ea8de OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

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": "a662ee09c2472f3f3e78c5b50ff5a8f1b9acdfea0c3a73db7e8f8bc0bbb1e2f2",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 96,
  "vsize": 96,
  "weight": 384,
  "locktime": 0,
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      "scriptSig": {
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      },
      "prevout": {
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        "height": 0,
        "value": "",
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          "hex": "",
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        }
      },
      "coinbase": "03bb4d030650f3f1260fee",
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": "25.41850000",
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
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        "desc": "addr(14aHscQewy4PvrJ21DQNWWN6o5BknqFdvN)#vt6nhnt0",
        "hex": "76a91427343049981fef6c2c8b3c02486e0bebc71ea8de88ac",
        "address": "14aHscQewy4PvrJ21DQNWWN6o5BknqFdvN",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fee": "",
  "hex": "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff0b03bb4d030650f3f1260feeffffffff01908d8197000000001976a91427343049981fef6c2c8b3c02486e0bebc71ea8de88ac00000000"
}