Transaction b6259195f7032acadb4d02b000e57a8a260951f3cdd94e854812a9a32442d2f4

Block #164027

2012-01-27 03:14:20 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0475 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 043fd40c1a03cc9900122f503253482f42495031362f736c7573682f522cfabe6d6da5414a3246d2f0fdcb676eea33a6e180171cabed505ea3edabda8f854706b4550100000000000000

Outputs

41045646205da9f8c81f45f338253268d3a22d7aef55fc33546a4f898913f1b97f655278ec26bbcc0ac0cc167620515838f3a8f536ab69d03d1396ade65163e8abf4ac

045646205da9f8c81f45f338253268d3a22d7aef55fc33546a4f898913f1b97f655278ec26bbcc0ac0cc167620515838f3a8f536ab69d03d1396ade65163e8abf4 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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