Transaction a8b31f1ce1cc44ca5d3d5bc921cda1caa0a3886ea68b5d63fa839d9944f68faf
Block #287833
2014-02-26 02:01:39 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 6 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.002 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": "a8b31f1ce1cc44ca5d3d5bc921cda1caa0a3886ea68b5d63fa839d9944f68faf",
"version": 1,
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"vin": [
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"txid": "c94dab9b4db69b00701387e8d7e68a6df6174d16fe21982d433b42e43983120a",
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"scriptSig": {
"asm": "3046022100d02eab69f10f1cc6ebef1366bf49a343f648b496180555aaff671f8fcd1d317f022100c3578d77b40381175daf891e8ece993b4dc3bd53fc775a724d251cab4ab18d86[ALL] 049d7848c6766796b2d946c5abf49fe4533665ff251ca2fe46e5b0e3bcbb12be4d1b3c92b9ee4db0086b2e65d853225a990f680b4622ee4eea116f868e110e6f13",
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 00cd99036cb3625d5d79db7f411bd4646badb1b0 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(115FJBPuZ3kdDbT8YtPWcP1hAPKGFveivP)#du4t0fds",
"hex": "76a91400cd99036cb3625d5d79db7f411bd4646badb1b088ac",
"address": "115FJBPuZ3kdDbT8YtPWcP1hAPKGFveivP",
"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
},
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}
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"scriptPubKey": {
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"desc": "addr(1FuckMtGoxFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUQXW5ik)#vl57l9er",
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"address": "1FuckMtGoxFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUQXW5ik",
"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
},
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"value": "0.00200000",
"n": 1,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 ee3e04c18b17b437b7930aef3075124e317970d0 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1Nii7nMeYwiR1cA9Pjj4pCJBCwrRz26vaX)#e8xp2ra9",
"hex": "76a914ee3e04c18b17b437b7930aef3075124e317970d088ac",
"address": "1Nii7nMeYwiR1cA9Pjj4pCJBCwrRz26vaX",
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}
},
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"value": "0.00200000",
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 5758d5a7edf478d0dc1bd4449418ee277aa54bd7 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(18xrD2TB2uRZ1vD6MVvqTd9NgLQvpnE96e)#wlaeft4e",
"hex": "76a9145758d5a7edf478d0dc1bd4449418ee277aa54bd788ac",
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"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 041f4d6fa34944ac4cf5451d461f4b7b037dcecf OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1NoChipsForTomRidd1eXXXXXXXZdqC5y)#20zves4e",
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"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 660a4006e16e9b3fbbba5e41c4aa83747c6d1d62 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1AJYCksourdiTtufBBwKTmvuQ8F8b6Cq1e)#t50pkt8p",
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