في يوم الثلاثاء، لفت محلل onchain ومؤسس Timechainindex.com سانّي إلى معاملة بيتكوين قام فيها المالك بتحويل 107 BTC، بقيمة 8.2 مليون دولار بأسعار الصرف الحالية، إلى عنوان حرق، ما يجعل الأموال غير قابلة للوصول إليها بشكل دائم وغير ممكن إنفاقها.
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- لفت مؤسس Timechainindex.com سانّي إلى حرق 107 BTC في 25 مايو بقيمة تزيد على 8.2 مليون دولار.
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- وصلت حيازات محافظ حرق بيتكوين إلى 807 BTC، بقيمة تقارب 62.15 مليون دولار.
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- قام الطرف المقابل بحرق 2,131 BTC في 2014، ما غذّى جدلًا متجددًا حول آلية إثبات الحرق.
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.
لماذا لا تزال أسباب حرق كمية كبيرة من BTC لغزًا إلى الآن، على الأقل في الوقت الراهن
دفعت أحدث عملية نقل لـ107 BTC التي أشار إليها سانّي رصيد المحفظة إلى مستواه الحالي. وحتى الآن، لم تظهر أي توضيحات حول سبب قيام مالك محفظة غير معروف بتدمير طوعًا ما يزيد عن 8.2 مليون دولار من البيتكوين. تحمل المعاملة سجلًا دون هوية مرتبطة، ولا تُظهر أي روابط واضحة لإطلاق بروتوكول، أو آلية لإثبات الحرق، أو مشروع معروف، ما يترك مجتمع العملات المشفرة في حالة تخمينات.
سواء كان ذلك فعلًا احتجاجيًا، أو بيانًا معقّدًا، أو خطأ كارثيًا من المستخدم، أو شيئًا آخر تمامًا، فلا يزال غير معلوم. ما هو مؤكد هو أن جميع 807 BTC المحفوظة في هذه المحفظة قد اختفت إلى الأبد، وامتصتها عنوان استهلك ما يعادل عشرات الملايين من الدولارات على مدى أكثر من عقد من الزمن، ولن يفرج أبدًا عن ساتوشي واحد. إن الدافع وراء الحرق، حتى الآن، يبقى دائمًا بقدر ديمومة الخسارة نفسها.
ومع ذلك، قد يكشف هذا الغموض عن نفسه في نهاية المطاف.
