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Re: Does a PUBLIC Bitcoin Burn address really exist?
by
btc-room101
on 08/06/2021, 04:21:42 UTC
Out of all of Bitcoin history has one address been rendered a certifiable "Bitcoin Burn Address". An address the Bitcoin community can trust 100% that the Bitcoin sent to this address CANNOT ever be recovered . A Bitcoin address so completely unrecoverable the Bitcoin sent to this address could be considered "removed from total supply"

for a long time the private key '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
 had lots of btc, but I notice now its gone, you used to not be able to use that address, so they patched the code enabled and somebody swept the address

so goes to show you that no address is beyond the power of dev-core to grab 'lost' or 'un-wanted' btc

This address is also a 'burn', as there is no hash160 of all zeros, or if there was it would take an infinite amount of time to find that hash that only contained zero's. Early on years of bitcoin, lots of people would accidently send to this h160 address of all 'zeros' and it appears that they're still there

ku 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

input           : 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
network         : Bitcoin mainnet
symbol          : BTC
hash160         : 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Bitcoin address : 1111111111111111111114oLvT2

Address
1111111111111111111114oLvT2
Format
BASE58 (P2PKH)
Transactions
95,576
Total Received
198.20607395 BTC
Total Sent
0.00000000 BTC
Final Balance
198.20607395 BTC