All-zeros hash burn address
4°
this address's ancestry traces 4 degrees to the earliest coins
This address is what you get when the 160-bit hash inside a standard Bitcoin address is set entirely to zero. Like other constructed burn addresses it has no derivable private key, and its explorer record shows hundreds of thousands of inbound transactions with no output ever spent. Much of that volume is not deliberate philanthropy or protocol burning but software artefacts — null or default values written into transactions by buggy tooling — which is why its transaction count dwarfs other burn addresses.
What is and is not established. Not a wallet and not owned by anyone; it must not be rendered as a controlled entity. It is a degenerate encoding of the zero hash. As with the Bitcoin Eater address, 'unspendable' here is computational infeasibility rather than a protocol-level proof, and the source hedges accordingly. A significant but unquantified share of inbound value is likely accidental rather than intentional burning — treat any narrative about 'why people burned coins here' with suspicion. First-seen date not verified this session.
Address
1111111111111111111114oLvT2
Era
2010s–present (first-seen date not verified)
Sources
Other wallets and stories
Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0)
Patoshi-Pattern Early Mining Set (2009-2010)
Hal Finney — Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction (Block 170)
The Bitcoin Faucet (2010) — Published Donation Address
Kraken
OKX (formerly OKEx)
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