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  <p>not possible to create a transaction which would spend the utxos since there is no private key to sign the transaction?</p>
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<p>Yes. That's the whole point of a burn address - to have an address where no one is able to spend the coins.</p>

<p>Of course, in theory, someone could find a private key that corresponds to a burn address, but the probability is so small that it is effectively 0.</p>

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<p>If a burn address is created without a private key to prevent access to the bitcoin there, is not possible to create a transaction which would spend the utxos since there is no private key to sign the transaction?</p>

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Is it possible to spend the unspent outputs of a burn address?
John
# Is it possible to spend the unspent outputs of a burn address?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-21)

If a burn address is created without a private key to prevent access to the bitcoin there, is not possible to create a transaction which would spend the utxos since there is no private key to sign the transaction?

**Tags:** transactions, utxo, non-standard-transaction


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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-03-21. Score: 1

> not possible to create a transaction which would spend the utxos since there is no private key to sign the transaction?

Yes. That's the whole point of a burn address - to have an address where no one is able to spend the coins.

Of course, in theory, someone could find a private key that corresponds to a burn address, but the probability is so small that it is effectively 0.


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