Burning coins. How to?

[SnowFlakes-Dev]

I want to burn some Snow Flakes from the premine. How do I achieve this.  Any best practice?

[BigBoom3599]

Just send them to a random address , as long as nobody has the private keys to that address (and won't generate them in the future) nobody will be able to access the coins.

[ttookk]

Just send them to a random address , as long as nobody has the private keys to that address (and won't generate them in the future) nobody will be able to access the coins.

Best to send them to an address, that is "provably" without known private key, like "XOXOXOXOXBURNADDRESSXOXOXOXOXO" or something along those lines. Otherwise, nobody can be sure, whether the random address is in fact random, or you actually hold the privkey to it.

[SnowFlakes-Dev]

I tried sending to fake addresses like XOXOXOXOXBURNADDRESSXOXOXOXOXO0000 or S000BURN0ADDRESS000000000000000000

But console says

Code:

Invalid snowflakes address (code -5)

How do I guess a valid address ?

[ajaxmoor]

I tried sending to fake addresses like XOXOXOXOXBURNADDRESSXOXOXOXOXO0000 or S000BURN0ADDRESS000000000000000000

But console says

Code:

Invalid snowflakes address (code -5)

How do I guess a valid address ?

You could always create a new wallet, and transfer coins to it and delete the wallet key from your system. Would definitely ensure no one gets those coins in the future.

[ttookk]

I tried sending to fake addresses like XOXOXOXOXBURNADDRESSXOXOXOXOXO0000 or S000BURN0ADDRESS000000000000000000

But console says

Code:

Invalid snowflakes address (code -5)

How do I guess a valid address ?

I'm not familiar with snowflakes, so I don't know what a snowflakes address needs to constitute as a valid address. You are the dev, you should know

[SnowFlakes-Dev]

It uses Base58Check encoding decimal version 63 (S)

Yet S000BURN0ADDRESS000000000000000000 is not accepted.

[Huge Black Woman]

DA FUQ is a snowflake coin?  An' don't the OP here claim to be a develolper o' that coin or what?  Don't y'all know how to waste up ya own coin?

[SnowFlakes-Dev]

Found This https://gist.github.com/CoinWhisperer/6d673f1f3d13da1611cd

Works #1

[Spoetnik]

Send your coins to me i will burn them for you 

[talkbitcoin]

if the fundamentals are the same as bitcoin you can't just pick a random address on your own, the address has to match certain rules which is the base58 encoding with checksum.
like this:

Code:

Bitcoin address = version + RIPEMD-160(SHA-256( Public Key )) + checksum

you can find articles on how to do it with bitcoin and then change them to your altcoin:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_burn
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-generate-a-valid-bitcoin-address-for-destroying-bitcoins

p.s. donating them would be wiser and easier!

[donalddlanod]

if the fundamentals are the same as bitcoin you can't just pick a random address on your own, the address has to match certain rules which is the base58 encoding with checksum.
like this:

Code:

Bitcoin address = version + RIPEMD-160(SHA-256( Public Key )) + checksum

you can find articles on how to do it with bitcoin and then change them to your altcoin:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_burn
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-generate-a-valid-bitcoin-address-for-destroying-bitcoins

p.s. donating them would be wiser and easier!

Donating is an awesome idea. ANd you would get extra marketing mileage out of it.

[sonic212]

I tried sending to fake addresses like XOXOXOXOXBURNADDRESSXOXOXOXOXO0000 or S000BURN0ADDRESS000000000000000000

But console says

Code:

Invalid snowflakes address (code -5)

How do I guess a valid address ?

You could always create a new wallet, and transfer coins to it and delete the wallet key from your system. Would definitely ensure no one gets those coins in the future.

how it could happen you please tell me about it

[Warkop]

Just send them to a random address , as long as nobody has the private keys to that address (and won't generate them in the future) nobody will be able to access the coins.

I thought it was appropriate to criminals who make coins for fraud

[ttookk]

The problem with all completely random burn addresses is, that you can't concusively prove, that you don't really know the privkey. PEople would have to trust you. If the burn address is sufficiently non-random, there is no way in hell that you or anyone else knows the privkey.

Maybe use the burn address generator mentioned above and just change "1" to "S"?

[Spoetnik]

The problem with all completely random burn addresses is, that you can't concusively prove, that you don't really know the privkey. PEople would have to trust you. If the burn address is sufficiently non-random, there is no way in hell that you or anyone else knows the privkey.

Maybe use the burn address generator mentioned above and just change "1" to "S"?

Agreed and an interesting solution. (didn't know there was anything like that)
Isn't there a burn coin or two ? What about giving them to that thing ?
Just a thought ..i know little about this issue.

[ttookk]

The problem with all completely random burn addresses is, that you can't concusively prove, that you don't really know the privkey. PEople would have to trust you. If the burn address is sufficiently non-random, there is no way in hell that you or anyone else knows the privkey.

Maybe use the burn address generator mentioned above and just change "1" to "S"?

Agreed and an interesting solution. (didn't know there was anything like that)
Isn't there a burn coin or two ? What about giving them to that thing ?
Just a thought ..i know little about this issue.

Afaik, Traditional coins don't jump blockchains, so those proof-of-burn coins will have to use burn addresses on the native blockchain of a coin.

[Hazard]

https://dev.cryptolife.net/trusted-burn-addresses/

[aioc]

https://dev.cryptolife.net/trusted-burn-addresses/

I have bookmarked this page for reference and for future usage,there's been so many altcoin in the market with over supply of their coin and a site like Barr and this addresses are a big help to the community.

[chanbtc]

https://dev.cryptolife.net/trusted-burn-addresses/

Looks nice but how they are guaranteed to have no known or discoverable private key??