ビットコインのバーン・ウォレットが、正体不明のユーザーが謎の送金で107 BTCを破壊したことで、$8.2Mを吸収し、その後「Mystery Transfer」です

火曜日、オンチェーン分析者でTimechainindex.comの創業者であるサニ（Sani）は、所有者が107 BTCをバーンアドレスへ送金し、現在の為替レートで8.2百万ドル相当の資金が永久に利用不能となり、支出も不可能になるビットコイン取引を指摘しました。

• 重要なポイント。
• • Timechainindex.comの創業者サニ（Sani）が、5月25日に価値が8.2百万ドル超となる107 BTCのバーンを指摘。
• • バーンウォレットの保有残高は807 BTCに到達し、約6,215万ドル相当。
• • 取引相手は2014年に2,131 BTCをバーンしており、改めてプルーフ・オブ・バーン論争に火をつけた。

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.

なぜ人々はこれほど多くのBTCをバーンしているのかが分からないまま、少なくとも当面は

サニ（Sani）によって指摘された最新の107 BTCの移動によって、ウォレットの残高は現在の水準まで押し上げられました。これまでのところ、正体不明のウォレット所有者が、自主的に8.2百万ドル相当以上のビットコインを破壊する理由について、説明は出ていません。この取引には関連する身元がなく、プロトコルのローンチ、プルーフ・オブ・バーンの仕組み、または既知のプロジェクトへの明確なつながりも示されていないため、暗号資産コミュニティは推測に頼るしかありません。

それが抗議の行為だったのか、入念な声明だったのか、取り返しのつかない利用者のミスだったのか、あるいは別の何かだったのかは、依然として分かりません。確かなのは、このウォレットに保管されている807 BTCはすべて永遠に消え、何千万ドルもの相当額を、10年以上の期間にわたって吸収し、そして二度と単一のサトシも放出することのないアドレスへと取り込まれたということです。バーンの動機は、少なくとも現時点では、その損失自体と同じくらい永続的に残っています。

それでも、その謎はやがて明らかになるかもしれません。