Transaction b520cc0531088998ceff09446264764330333fe3831c936c9829293e2bcb071a

Block #164196

2012-01-28 08:13:30 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0045 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 043fd40c1a03218e00122f503253482f42495031362f736c7573682f522cfabe6d6d21e1c9f30e51bc0a8121721883add1dfb8da0fae05f2ab2ebab2a8defc38e5c30100000000000000

Outputs

41045bc76cbcde1142d58da0cd9b855ca640dea9ed22932f91278caedb53d03f20e79927a5a34ee5bebeccd1d0aa1fd1fc82fb3b69bf7be64f0b2015272400e79630ac

045bc76cbcde1142d58da0cd9b855ca640dea9ed22932f91278caedb53d03f20e79927a5a34ee5bebeccd1d0aa1fd1fc82fb3b69bf7be64f0b2015272400e79630 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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