Transaction ff8859aa2a0c6088618e2d4f8814f87467438076e7a305f5c7c5535e0e4e9e2d

Block #795547

2023-06-23 06:13:31 +0000 UTC (~1 year, 12 days ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.00000546 BTC🔥


Inputs
bc1p5gcxqer8m29s5kmz35emjp8rrq203807ezmu5776t6mmvsw9sxgs3a99r6
0.00000546 BTC
now $0.33
0.00000546 BTC
1 a230606467da8b0a5b628d33b904e31814f89dfec8b7ca7bda5eb7b641c58191 witness_v1_taproot
bc1p5gcxqer8m29s5kmz35emjp8rrq203807ezmu5776t6mmvsw9sxgs3a99r6
0.00019751 BTC
now $12.02
0.00019751 BTC
1 a230606467da8b0a5b628d33b904e31814f89dfec8b7ca7bda5eb7b641c58191 witness_v1_taproot
Outputs
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE
0.00000546 BTC
now $0.33
🔥0.00000546 BTC🔥
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash
bc1p5gcxqer8m29s5kmz35emjp8rrq203807ezmu5776t6mmvsw9sxgs3a99r6
0.00016283 BTC
now $9.91
0.00016283 BTC
1 a230606467da8b0a5b628d33b904e31814f89dfec8b7ca7bda5eb7b641c58191 witness_v1_taproot

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": "d2bc3b22e50bac753b610e88dacce2599e035e3ed54ae8bd29b69d672ae3cc7f",
  "version": 2,
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  "weight": 810,
  "locktime": 0,
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        "hex": ""
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      ],
      "prevout": {
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        "scriptPubKey": {
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        "desc": "addr(1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE)#6yunqau7",
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    },
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        "desc": "rawtr(a230606467da8b0a5b628d33b904e31814f89dfec8b7ca7bda5eb7b641c58191)#jejm8tjw",
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