Well, someone have to ask this newb question:
What is so special in this address and how can I figure out that it is a burn address?
What are those burn addresses are used for? And why da fuck you are so proud of owning one of them?

I think burn address is an address which have no access of it's private key. I mean no one has it's private key. Have a read here:

https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/tag/burn-addresses/

Why would people even send coins to a burn address?  Is it just a show off thing that they have money to burn while others are struggling to make anything.  The only positive thing is that it lowers the total bitcoin supply and raises the price even if the effect is minimal.

It's not to brag their wealth. It's an attempt to make something valuable. The first burning address linked by franky1 is actually an altcoin(ann thread).

Burning some of our coins slightly helps but the demand mainly controls the price. 

you have to first understand what a bitcoin address is to understand how it works. in short a bitcoin address is a base58 encoding of 20 bytes with 1 initial byte for version and 4 last bytes for its checksum.
we know the first one (version byte) and we can choose any 20 bytes that we want. with simple encoding you can come up with different variations (like all 1s, or even meaningful sentences) then you just have to calculate the last 4 checksum bytes (which is a hash) which is why the address looks like that (all 1s with different last 6-7 letters).
(this whole thing takes a fraction of a second by the way!)

now you just have to write some words like "BitcoinEaterDontSendBitcoin" conver it to byte array, add the missing bytes to make it 20, calculate checksum and you have a burn address.

that 20 bytes is the result of RIPEMD160 of SHA256 of public key. since this operation is irreversible you can not find the public key or the private key of such addresses hence any coins sent to them is considered "burnt".
why? google proof of burn.

Some people simply just want to watch the world born Either because they're no longer sane or last resort if one can't protect his bitcoin.

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there's even a website which let you make burn address, in case you want to try to make your own burn address : https://gobittest.appspot.com/ProofOfBurn

If you got error message like "Invalid character in input", don't forget bitcoin address uses Base58 (123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz), so you can't use 0 (zero), O, I (big i), & l (small L)

I am yet to understand what this post is all about. You have found a burn vanity lost address why making up a poll for the forum. Honestly the post is quite redundant

He just want to share it and then ask people here whether he should prove that he owned that address or not. Obviously, if he controls that address, it's no longer a burn address.


Burning your bitcoins can reduce the overall supply, so it can increase the scarcity, and therefore it can increase Bitcoin price (in theory).

He wants to prove that the address is indeed burn address? Yahoo!!

If OP think someone will send something to such address then it must be stupid to expect as its pointless. But maybe he just want to let us know he now is knowledgeable about it and proud about it. Well good. Okay so ye maybe.

A big thanks for the information. Then the OP is misleading. I have a question, what differs between normal address and burned address in terms of transaction? Is it easy for the burn to process such thing or is it like normal address?