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Block 242,242

Found by 50BTC 30 minutes after the block before it. Its 584 transactions paid 0.34600001 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 584 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
19 Jun 2013, 04:10 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.34600001 BTC
Reward
25.34600001 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
113 sat/vBmost paid 53 to 227 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash was 3.5 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 71% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,241, the block before it. Change anything in that block and its hash changes, so this one no longer fits: that is what makes the blocks a chain. Block 242,243 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.

Technical details

Hash
000000000000003f59cc09411b316e3dd5ae36ec9dc7b35a31e9fa17a6c09ef5
Previous hash
0000000000000009c692850d231ce0a587e0b95b933d9a6e8f751ba56ca31dc1
Merkle root
b40a2dc52ddfb5b50fa265269c780ecfd3557b07e75f0064f288fa65bd2931b7
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
4,222,969,372
Timestamp
1371615039
Median time
19 Jun 2013, 02:18 UTC
Weight
996,836 WU
Chainwork
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005456dfecd6d75b2947

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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