Transaction b5e842b71e9456b5e4997757f604421e2075803a18eb84caed748d48e28073dc
Block #279362
2014-01-08 20:03:43 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 7 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥1 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": "b5e842b71e9456b5e4997757f604421e2075803a18eb84caed748d48e28073dc",
"version": 1,
"size": 226,
"vsize": 226,
"weight": 904,
"locktime": 0,
"vin": [
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 a6c1f26f5cef546315376a9591c52f516e6cfb4b OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1GCjWX5922dNQeBxAYBdCQNnATecuovdbm)#3q7mxzg0",
"hex": "76a914a6c1f26f5cef546315376a9591c52f516e6cfb4b88ac",
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"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
},
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}
],
"vout": [
{
"value": "1.00000000",
"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr)#v66r8cp2",
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}
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"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 a6c1f26f5cef546315376a9591c52f516e6cfb4b OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1GCjWX5922dNQeBxAYBdCQNnATecuovdbm)#3q7mxzg0",
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"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
}
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