Burnie is an SPV Bitcoin burn verification library built on webcoin.
Burnie allows you to easily verify that Bitcoins have been "burned," i.e. sent to an unspendable address so that they are destroyed. Proof-of-burn has been used as a mining technique for alternative cryptocurrencies, and it has also been proposed as a DNS registration technique.
Burnie is based on webcoin. This gives it two important advantages over other ways of verifying proof-of-burn:
- It should be possible to run a full client in the browser (not yet tested).
- Since webcoin uses simplified payment verification, it starts up fast and uses minimal bandwidth.
See test.js.