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Re: Is there a way to publicly destroy a BTC?
by
greyman
on 24/12/2013, 23:17:18 UTC
Sure just send it to this address: 1111111111111111111114oLvT2

it's well understood that nobody has the private key for this.  It is the bitcoin address that corresponds to a public key hash of 0.

Ops, there are almost 3BTC there, seems that people are really destroying BTC's. ;-)

OP: Basically, you can just randomly generate a valid public bitcoin address (without the corresponding private key) and send the money there.