Transaction daea79d6692f74a9ed5da7bb7778c97e19df833bffb23ba43faa3a164013d226

Block #123431

2011-05-12 07:46:20 +0000 UTC (~15 years, 1 month ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.01 BTC🔥


Inputs
41048e1d1d17731ff9f7cbd1bb5178624f3f1063a1903044568fbc701e0afe87c840d1d5d3d6ba7e82268752b88453561d70335ecbcc3c178761b7543579377bedacac
0.27 BTC
now $20,130.44
0.27 BTC
048e1d1d17731ff9f7cbd1bb5178624f3f1063a1903044568fbc701e0afe87c840d1d5d3d6ba7e82268752b88453561d70335ecbcc3c178761b7543579377bedac OP_CHECKSIG pubkey
Outputs
4104f7e9dfacd80caeb845c752c8a5854d7cf7ae887f0e4329b6586ac64c11344935545a21be0268e3e228b78ed4b58c86cb6ccfe7e8ac9c46cb4f184d64dfd78d45ac
0.25 BTC
now $18,639.30
0.25 BTC
04f7e9dfacd80caeb845c752c8a5854d7cf7ae887f0e4329b6586ac64c11344935545a21be0268e3e228b78ed4b58c86cb6ccfe7e8ac9c46cb4f184d64dfd78d45 OP_CHECKSIG pubkey
1111111111111111111114oLvT2
0.01 BTC
now $745.57
🔥0.01 BTC🔥
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

How did this transaction burn BTC?

Burn Address

Bitcoin addresses are generated by base58 or bech32 encoding the hash of a public key or script, along with a version and checksum.

As the encoding is directly performed on this hash value, it is possible to generate a valid address for which the pre-image public key or script is unknown. This is known as a burn address.

This is commonly done to create a visually distinct address, and to demonstrate some level of “nothing up my sleeve” transparency. The hash values are picked to be values that are improbably to have been generated by chance (due to the immense computational power required to find a pre-image that hashes to a specific value).

While some burn addresses were used in Proof-of-Burn schemes, the majority of burn addresses are simply vanity addresses used to simply burn coins or encode a message into the blockchain.

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Raw Transaction
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  "hash": "daea79d6692f74a9ed5da7bb7778c97e19df833bffb23ba43faa3a164013d226",
  "version": 1,
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  "weight": 940,
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    },
    {
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      "scriptPubKey": {
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        "desc": "addr(1111111111111111111114oLvT2)#ula7cdg0",
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