Transaction e65b6ed9c2bfe310935611dcb4d35258f416435608ca60463fc50e9ed1bbaf2e

Block #163756

2012-01-25 05:31:05 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.01905454 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 0499931f4f01102c4d4d3d3d2d4f3c90e6a16010bdc3895dba34c29630a4a8bc64fb433f9f67ac73e32103450100000000000000

Outputs

2102e8d64bb2b48b448cb9b1e379f98e008f6eb5f970f8e9f3a7254fa6011fb25b6dac

02e8d64bb2b48b448cb9b1e379f98e008f6eb5f970f8e9f3a7254fa6011fb25b6d 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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  "hash": "e65b6ed9c2bfe310935611dcb4d35258f416435608ca60463fc50e9ed1bbaf2e",
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        "desc": "pk(02e8d64bb2b48b448cb9b1e379f98e008f6eb5f970f8e9f3a7254fa6011fb25b6d)#qc8tnkrx",
        "hex": "2102e8d64bb2b48b448cb9b1e379f98e008f6eb5f970f8e9f3a7254fa6011fb25b6dac",
        "type": "pubkey"
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  "hex": "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff340499931f4f01102c4d4d3d3d2d4f3c90e6a16010bdc3895dba34c29630a4a8bc64fb433f9f67ac73e32103450100000000000000ffffffff0100f2052a01000000232102e8d64bb2b48b448cb9b1e379f98e008f6eb5f970f8e9f3a7254fa6011fb25b6dac00000000"
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