Pada hari Selasa, analis onchain dan pendiri Timechainindex.com, Sani, menyoroti sebuah transaksi bitcoin di mana pemiliknya mentransfer 107 BTC, senilai $8,2 juta pada nilai tukar saat ini, ke alamat burn, sehingga dana menjadi permanen tidak dapat diakses dan tidak mungkin dibelanjakan.
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- Pendiri Timechainindex.com, Sani, menandai burn 107 BTC pada 25 Mei senilai lebih dari $8,2 juta.
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- Kepemilikan di dompet burn bitcoin mencapai 807 BTC, senilai hampir $62,15 juta.
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- Pihak lawan membakar 2.131 BTC pada 2014, memicu perdebatan proof-of-burn yang kembali bergulir.
Bitcoin Burn Wallet Jumps to 807 BTC After Mystery User Burns $8.2 Million
According to onchain data, on Monday, May 25, an unidentified wallet transferred 107.1302 BTC valued at more than $8.2 million to what is known as a burn address. In simple terms, a burn address is a public cryptographic destination with no known private key, meaning any bitcoin sent there becomes permanently locked and entirely unspendable. It is, quite literally, comparable to tossing $8.2 million in U.S. dollar bills into a fire.
Onchain analyst and Timechainindex.com founder Sani was the first to identify the unusual transfer. “Someone just broadcasted 5 transactions totaling 107 BTC to the bitcoin ‘burn address’ 1111111111111111111114oLvT2,” Sani wrote on Tuesday. Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor responded to Sani’s X post with a meme depicting Sesame Street’s Elmo standing in front of roaring flames.
Blockstream founder Adam Back also responded to Sani’s post. “Accidental quantum bounty?” Back asked in the thread. Sani replied, “Looks like Maximus Retardimus.” A bitcoin burn address is often created by intentionally generating a valid public key or script with a recognizable, text-based pattern instead of deriving it from a randomly generated private key.
The wallet “1111111111111111111114oLvT2” balance history according to Arkham Intelligence’s explorer.
Because the Bitcoin network only requires a mathematically valid destination format to accept a transaction, anyone can send funds to such an address. Yet, since the probability of discovering the corresponding private key is effectively nonexistent, any bitcoin transferred there is permanently inaccessible and cannot be spent.
Counterparty Project Showcases a Historic Burn Address Example
A notable example came in January 2014 when the Counterparty project launched by asking participants to destroy bitcoin through transfers to the burn address 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUFS6t. Over 20 days, users burned 2,131.11 BTC, now worth millions of dollars. In return, the protocol automatically distributed 2.6 million XCP tokens without an initial coin offering ( ICO) or founder allocation.
This particular burn address that received 107 BTC contains 21 consecutive ones followed by “14oLvT2” at the end of the wallet string. Oddly enough, the address now holds 807.238 BTC worth $62.15 million after accumulating 385,811 confirmed unspent transaction outputs ( UTXOs). Another curious detail is that the burn wallet was created on Aug. 10, 2010. Since then, it has never sent a single satoshi because doing so is impossible.
The wallet was largely dormant from 2010 through early 2014, maintaining a near-zero BTC balance. Around late 2014 to early 2015, however, the address began accumulating funds, climbing to roughly 30 to 40 BTC before gradually reaching approximately 50 to 60 BTC by 2016.
The balance remained fairly stable throughout 2017, 2018, and into 2019, hovering between 60 and 80 BTC with very little movement. That extended plateau continued through 2020 with only minor changes. The largest shift came between late 2020 and early 2021, when the balance jumped from roughly 80 BTC to about 150–175 BTC in what appears to have been a major transfer event.
Growth accelerated further through 2022 and 2023, with the wallet climbing from around 175 BTC to nearly 500 BTC by mid-2022 before reaching approximately 500–520 BTC by early 2023. Another sizable increase arrived around mid-2023, lifting the balance to roughly 600–650 BTC. Accumulation continued steadily through 2024, eventually approaching 700 BTC.
Mengapa Banyak Orang Membakar BTC Sebegitu Besar Masih Belum Diketahui, Setidaknya Untuk Saat Ini
Transfer 107 BTC terbaru yang disorot oleh Sani mendorong saldo dompetnya ke level saat ini. Hingga kini, belum muncul penjelasan mengenai mengapa pemilik dompet yang tak teridentifikasi akan secara sukarela menghancurkan bitcoin senilai lebih dari $8,2 juta. Transaksi ini tidak membawa identitas yang terkait dan tidak menunjukkan keterkaitan yang jelas dengan peluncuran protokol, mekanisme proof-of-burn, atau proyek yang dikenal, sehingga komunitas kripto dibiarkan berspekulasi.
Apakah itu tindakan protes, pernyataan yang dirancang secara rumit, kesalahan fatal pengguna, atau yang lainnya sepenuhnya—masih belum diketahui. Yang pasti, semua 807 BTC yang dipegang di dompet ini sudah lenyap selamanya, terserap ke sebuah alamat yang telah menghabiskan setara puluhan juta dolar selama lebih dari satu dekade dan tidak akan pernah melepas satu satoshi pun. Motif di balik aksi burn tersebut, untuk saat ini, tetap sama permanennya dengan kehilangan itu sendiri.
Namun, misteri ini bisa saja akhirnya terungkap.
