Transaction a6bec8cea789c0e3f29c70f473776c24326f9572ec97cdaa60bb99220e919ebe
Block #317836
2014-08-28 03:01:26 +0000 UTC (~11 years, 11 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.000055 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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"hash": "a6bec8cea789c0e3f29c70f473776c24326f9572ec97cdaa60bb99220e919ebe",
"version": 1,
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"weight": 900,
"locktime": 0,
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 abd150505f43ffec996e8521c7f24f5626366c71 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1GfVJBBxwvG7uMtSxUFMMf686Y5D9baGqv)#fgq8qquz",
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}
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 5e2f4c046549c49b56d8995f3e8f1d3d004b5fea OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(19b1BHJyki76tGqfU5p3ysuV1b2gYb8NGC)#fd4p4k25",
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},
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1111111111111111111114oLvT2)#ula7cdg0",
"hex": "76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000088ac",
"address": "1111111111111111111114oLvT2",
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