Transaction fcc3723e07c5cbfbd15d855dca7230ce774e022c0901c0e7f0189bf77589c3ac
Block #123431
2011-05-12 07:46:20 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 8 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.01 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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}
},
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},
{
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"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1111111111111111111114oLvT2)#ula7cdg0",
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"address": "1111111111111111111114oLvT2",
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