Transaction e88e3339e636ae1764c78043c295105141d56e01c4086cca92b6593660c6786d

Block #163975

2012-01-26 19:50:59 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.06490002 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 043fd40c1a030ebc01122f503253482f42495031362f736c7573682f522cfabe6d6d417b3d4b2cda8536a740d163abedb4012683fbb641f5cc4b59ab78442fedd98a0100000000000000

Outputs

4104a90cb05e2ea364bcaff265a23cfc859c74e132ec172eec961b0f7a824f4db408c1f2e20844eb4feb6ea10b72b19d2e422864533a8a917212564bb90ef70363ebac

04a90cb05e2ea364bcaff265a23cfc859c74e132ec172eec961b0f7a824f4db408c1f2e20844eb4feb6ea10b72b19d2e422864533a8a917212564bb90ef70363eb 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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