Block 0
Found by an unknown miner. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 50 BTC of new coins and no fees.
, 17 years 9 months ago
The genesis block. The first block. Its coinbase carries a newspaper headline from that day: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". More notable blocks
What's inside
Each square is one of its 1 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.
Facts
- Found
- 3 Jan 2009, 18:15 UTC
- Confirmations
- 971,606
- Size
- 285 B0.0% full by weight
- Fees
- 0 BTC
- Reward
- 50 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Pool
- Unknownthe coinbase names no pool we know
Luck. Its hash was 2,536 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 99.96% of blocks.
The chain
The genesis block: the first, with no block before it. Every later block traces back to this one. Block 1 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
- Merkle root
- 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
- Version
- 0x00000001
- Bits
- 1d00ffff
- Nonce
- 2,083,236,893
- Timestamp
- 1231006505
- Median time
- 3 Jan 2009, 18:15 UTC
- Weight
- 1,140 WU
- Chainwork
- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100010001
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
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