Transaction ccb40391350c158899dca9d234f0c45a310b8c8dae9c3ec1cc02cdbbee9362e7

Block #164050

2012-01-27 08:11:44 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.002 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 04415c224f02ed002c4d4d3d3dff6f695c5ae3575a45302c43f2ab3272c125c7b9bb68b778f0eb58095cb8db240100000000000000

Outputs

41047079a049056b42f7c9712b6de1bbfc19fe4996ab8d411350da3b5730fbee3ca29f673be4d6efd888d2ed48b5062c7efb29effce2256e567fdb1ded14c65071f4ac

047079a049056b42f7c9712b6de1bbfc19fe4996ab8d411350da3b5730fbee3ca29f673be4d6efd888d2ed48b5062c7efb29effce2256e567fdb1ded14c65071f4 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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