Transaction ba71e5eba6213d46f751ee0a88af89609d21fc14f7d9e0493b59ec0d7d91743e

Block #163710

2012-01-24 22:17:16 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.13170451 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 04ea2d1f4f013c2c4d4d3d3d7f718d22136c933ef28368f739ca0c893a19c73a1dd989b884a85c73c274669c0100000000000000

Outputs

41045eda3da2e03966c555a6dfcd0912c1436cc517f25e9a6baeff1d098ed0b43c84d33cac8f166e1e88967f0e89068c62b2919b6c3a74fc9109175ac47705127d2eac

045eda3da2e03966c555a6dfcd0912c1436cc517f25e9a6baeff1d098ed0b43c84d33cac8f166e1e88967f0e89068c62b2919b6c3a74fc9109175ac47705127d2e 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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  "version": 1,
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