Transaction d178d470ecdc75dbb09e13305dab223fa37a01dd36eff937aa2205a8af582f63

Block #163622

2012-01-24 08:08:01 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.003 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 04d6661e4f01792c4d4d3d3d9c6216aff20779e17b6f8c295155fcd71f65a90c3987a1d0306b85fc0ba6dbc40100000000000000062f503253482f

Outputs

4104758ec9fb20d66dd2a46ff0c31440f419bcd4450e5a1944c88db7aa8e2e87a4b3131d8047f1761b7215660c60033dcbac1b962324d054931f43b15160903eb8beac

04758ec9fb20d66dd2a46ff0c31440f419bcd4450e5a1944c88db7aa8e2e87a4b3131d8047f1761b7215660c60033dcbac1b962324d054931f43b15160903eb8be 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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