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Ethereum : Why can’t I reduce the balance of an address by sending tokens to a “burn address”? I am totally perplexed!

Ethereum update: Why can’t I reduce the balance of an address by sending tokens to a “burn address”? I am totally perplexed!


I am flummoxed by something involving the balance of a token account.

There is a token with a balance of 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

The goal is to reduce the balance to 100,000,000 (one hundred million)

Therefore, 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999900000000000 is sent to a burn address (0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000001). The above amount includes three zeros for the token’s three decimal places.

However, the TX information shows that 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 was sent. Link: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6766f4e23ba40b6a836bf7b7129b97255ff07664e7ba52f76003bffb8610271b

(I am assuming that some kind of rounding was done).

Irrespective, the current balance seems to show (by my interpretation) no relation to the subtraction of tokens performed above. Link: https://etherscan.io/token/0xf71c0fcab223d1e60e17716443937fa9a043fe1b?a=0x258ff81aed648aa72faeb244dfa443bb1f43a00c

Can anyone please explain to me how it’s possible to set the balance of this token to 100,000,000 (plus three decimals), thanks?




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