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Block 242,406

Found by 50BTC 2 minutes after the block before it. Its 251 transactions paid 0.1861 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 251 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Jun 2013, 06:54 UTC
Size
131 kB13.1% full by weight
Fees
0.1861 BTC
Reward
25.1861 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 32 to 229 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 12% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,405, 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 242,407 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000c2b27723c293fc43508ad538ff79f1bc3b8fe0e78142fde4ff
Previous hash
000000000000005a38d7d2657174a9b240e9bfca68eaa7e0ea725d67a4d3efd3
Merkle root
dc21d3820988ffee3e396657397093d75d565feeaff68771c65bb808f0385753
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
3,622,747,197
Timestamp
1371711242
Median time
20 Jun 2013, 05:59 UTC
Weight
525,084 WU
Chainwork
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005513ec06379c9dd59b

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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