The reason the coins sent to these addresses are now gone forever is that the burn addresses are demonstrably made up addresses, instead of being created together with the corresponding private key that would be required to spend the burnt coins.

26 characters of each burn address, CryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXX, are so perfectly ordered as to be obviously specifically chosen. (The remaining 6 characters, like the last 6 characters of any address, are automatically calculated and serve as a safety check feature.) This guarantees that there is no known matching private key for this address. In other words, the chance of anyone guessing the private key to spend the burnt coin at that address is the same as the chance of guessing any private key for any other bitcoin address: practically zero.

Burn addresses can be used for many different purposes including fair distribution of a new currency, premine destruction, and more.

Below are burn addresses for the most common address prefixes. Please use the one that suits your coin. For example, LiteCoin addresses start with ‘L’ so you would choose the corresponding address below.

1CryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXXSdVx52
AHCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXainVwi
BFCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXXKgT3c
CJCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXYQmsK4
DsCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXXbTNBT
EgCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXbTFasY
FVCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXcBdXmn
GbCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXYinemm
HNCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZXv4qR
iTCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXc1kwov
JXCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXYud2Gk
K8CryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXYCGfe2
LbCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXXGon58
MXCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXY9SEys
NTCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZN9MLM
ocCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZ2aQRa
PKCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXXMNDfN
QgCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXb6QD3H
RWCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZ2aHBf
SaCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZ78XsA
TRCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXX6gvik
UPCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXcC6n5f
VtCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXdESejm
WYCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXX3q1uE
XWCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXZ4kKKN
YPCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXa3PjjF
ZNCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXaC6vBa

If you require a custom burn address, or a burn address for a prefix that is not listed above, please Contact Us

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This is a referral link, however, you will receive $100 in free credit if you sign up through it – so you probably should. The $5/month plan is all you need. Use sudo in front of all commands if you’re not logged in as root. Replace YOURCOIN with the name of your coin (case sensitive).

Set up a swapfile if your system has less than 1.5GB of memory:

fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
chown root:root /swapfile
chmod 0600 /swapfile
sudo bash -c "echo 'vm.swappiness = 10' >> /etc/sysctl.conf"
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

If fallocate doesn’t work, you can use dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1024288 instead.

Initialize swapfile automatically on boot

echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

Install all required dependencies:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install nano ntp unzip git build-essential libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libqrencode-dev aptitude && aptitude install miniupnpc libminiupnpc-dev

Pull the source code from github, or upload it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/YOURCOIN

If your coin uses leveldb, compile leveldb:

cd /YOURCOIN/src/leveldb
chmod +x build_detect_platform
make clean
make libleveldb.a libmemenv.a

Return to source directory, and compile the daemon:

cd /YOURCOIN/src
make -f makefile.unix

Strip the file to make it smaller, then relocate it:

strip YOURCOINd
cp YOURCOINd /usr/bin

Now run the daemon:

YOURCOINd

It will return an error, telling you to set up config file in a directory. Now we’ll set up the config file. Note that this is case sensitive.

nano ~/.YOURCOIN/YOURCOIN.conf

Add the following, save and exit:

daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=(username)
rpcpassword=(strong password)

Run YOURCOINd once more and if you did everything correctly, your daemon is now online! Type YOURCOINd help for a full list of commands available.

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