Burn Bitcoin — permanently, provably
Burning sends bitcoin to an output it can never be spent from again. Here’s why people do it — and exactly how burnyt does it for you.
Provably destroyed
Bitcoin is sent to an OP_RETURN output — unspendable at the consensus level. There’s no “burn address” someone could secretly hold a key to; the destruction is permanent and verifiable on-chain.
A mark that lasts
A burn is a real Bitcoin transaction, stamped with a BURNYT header and the npub it’s credited to. Once it’s mined, it lives in the timechain for as long as Bitcoin does.
A statement on the hardest ledger
Mark a milestone, make a memorial, or make a point by taking real value out of circulation — recorded where it can never be edited or deleted.
Anyone can verify it
Every burn is a plain Bitcoin transaction with a txid. Inspect the output in any block explorer — the destruction is public and independently checkable, with no trusted third party.
Create digital scarcity
Removing Bitcoin from circulation permanently reduces the spendable supply — every burn is a verifiable subtraction from the 21 million that can ever exist.
A signal that can’t be faked
Because a burn is irreversible and public, it’s a costly signal — proof of conviction that talk alone can’t match. What you gave up stays legible to anyone, forever.
It counts, under a name
Every burnyt burn is credited to a nostr npub — yours, or the one you burn for. It adds to that profile’s total, moves it up the leaderboard, and comes with a certificate anyone can check.