Transaction e9f9f3dd6b4ed1bc16a133794793202995e6334aec3548cbae30f98bf4c0aef3
Block #329754
2014-11-13 01:40:41 +0000 UTC (~9 years, 9 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.00233443 BTC🔥
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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"hash": "e9f9f3dd6b4ed1bc16a133794793202995e6334aec3548cbae30f98bf4c0aef3",
"version": 1,
"size": 226,
"vsize": 226,
"weight": 904,
"locktime": 0,
"vin": [
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"value": "2.50703834",
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 562b351203b73ad3c0324ec9643e5d7ee1009a35 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(18rcsbS8N3GwDptpSAACRvjMPyvyMst1m7)#r9c93600",
"hex": "76a914562b351203b73ad3c0324ec9643e5d7ee1009a3588ac",
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}
},
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}
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"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0c598df3ca4ecd4cf8e1d211ff9d1dd80e9b0605 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(128JPf9pMXM5wCTUY7eHZdUKe9xU4jRCfk)#lwefyagl",
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"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE)#6yunqau7",
"hex": "76a914759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f988ac",
"address": "1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE",
"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
}
],
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