5660d06bd69326c18ec63127b37fb3b32ea763c3846b3334c51beb6a800c57d3 (2022-10-20, malformed Coinbase, Coinbase transaction of block 759475)

In this malformed Coinbase transaction, the mining pool "nicehash" produced a provably unspendable Bitcoin output script due to a bug, and therefore lost most of the entire block reward of 6.25 BTC then worth about $ 123,000.

The output is unspendable because it ends in a constant 0, the disassembly of the first and main output is this series of constants:

0 017fed86bba5f31f955f8b316c7fb9bd45cb6cbc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

and for the second smaller one:

aa21a9ed62ec16bf1a388c7884e9778ddb0e26c0bf982dada47aaa5952347c0993da 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

the third one being an OP_RETURN message.

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