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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Lost Forever: 26.04 BTC Burned In 2016
by
davis196
on 27/12/2016, 13:05:53 UTC
Last October a website called BTCBurns.cf identified 397 burn addresses containing 2,657.8686 BTC lost forever. It has gone offline. Since it stopped keeping track 26.04 additional bitcoins have been sent to these addresses.

The total number of unspendable bitcoins is now 2,771.4086.

http://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/12/21/btc-burn-addresses/

What is a burn adress?I`ve never heard about this.

How is it possible people to continue to send bitcoins to those adresses?