To be fair, they could have made the burn address look like a burn address, instead of generating a random looking address. For example by including "xxxBurnAddressxxx" or whatever in the address. With enough non-random characters, the address itself would be proof enough that nobody holds the key.
Is there anything more than a "this is our burn address" statement?
No FUD intended, just asking.
Ref:
https://www.facebook.com/theblocknet/posts/407109672776524The Blocknet
November 10, 2014 ·
The Blocknet ITO is officially a success!
Bittrex sold 1,015,377.90
Poloniex sold 432,643.16
BTER sold 448,932.40 (est.)
Coingateway sold 1,979,961.97
Est. total BLOCK sold: 3,876,915.43
Estimated total funds raised in BTC: 969.2288575
**Provable destruction of unsold coins**
Unsold BLOCK has been destroyed by being sent to the following unspendable address:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/address.dws…
**Burn TX history:**
- Test burn:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/tx.dws?31966.htm- Burn of staked coins:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/tx.dws?32461.htm- Burn of unsold BLOCK on Poloniex:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/tx.dws?32564.htm- Burn of unsold BLOCK on Bittrex:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/tx.dws?32615.htm- Burn of unsold BLOCK on Bter: pending.
- Burn of unsold BLOCK on CoinGateway: pending.
Details on how proof-of-burn works are available here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-info-list-of-provably-unspendable-altcoin-addresses-ie-destroy-coins-831042The code used for proof-of-burn is here:
https://gist.github.com/Earlz/fa942122ce27c90ea9a6The current wallet version seems to be including burnt coins in the coin supply. Some blockchain explorers will also include the burnt coins. You can expect this to be rectified in due course (at least in the case of the wallet).
------ Hope that helps explain the burn ------- Irky