Transaction bd971a79d95e1bb10b86fb08f879d6b7d6d37ad5841f5029fd3fc8ea0d9fefef

Block #163088

2012-01-20 21:20:17 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.01 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 048eda194f02c2002c4d4d3d3dafb85547e6bce7078c5659ee1586bcbdaec660ac690cc3609f73e068e2451f660100000000000000062f503253482f

Outputs

410407d698036b5d06ed2cff5999800066076ad45a5e42d9bc90a56be826d097a668ec3ab327ac61fbb28942c43a1d712e44258ef5f79ebe2185eb3b65f74fde1231ac

0407d698036b5d06ed2cff5999800066076ad45a5e42d9bc90a56be826d097a668ec3ab327ac61fbb28942c43a1d712e44258ef5f79ebe2185eb3b65f74fde1231 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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  "size": 187,
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