Transaction acd5e3e1e0b232a913593c85deae86e1fa6cc51e681b3b7bbe688673f48bb3e5

Block #164211

2012-01-28 10:33:49 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 4 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.06260001 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 040ecf234f029f012c4d4d3d3d9c1b35441d4925972ef916e93c02d3eea7d84430abafea3866a6644523297e9c0100000000000000

Outputs

4104257ba097ebd5ca30c41f530c1a88c794bf7c4bb52b7e11847e76faccd95047ed6e8b49da50793f2c02962ebaff1dbad65ea27cdd97906969effa2bf06d59d524ac

04257ba097ebd5ca30c41f530c1a88c794bf7c4bb52b7e11847e76faccd95047ed6e8b49da50793f2c02962ebaff1dbad65ea27cdd97906969effa2bf06d59d524 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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