Burned Tokens
By CoinGecko | Updated on Jul 28, 2020
Tokens which have been sent to addresses whose private key are not known, effectively becoming unusable. Example burn addresses include 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE on Bitcoin or 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 on Ethereum.
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