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Block 242,457

Found by 50BTC 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 433 transactions paid 5.34 BTC in fees, 18% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 433 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Jun 2013, 16:34 UTC
Size
239 kB23.9% full by weight
Fees
5.33718177 BTC
Reward
30.33718177 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
44 sat/vBmost paid 0.0 to 228 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 25% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,456, 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 242,458 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000a766b4a648b7c51a1d922eceb38b3f52e03dc7aa8a17e393b6
Previous hash
00000000000000b282ddc66ed5ac0bb9acdb1aaf94cb62fa739ef94e85d1f279
Merkle root
aab61a7fc2f3f9c027b3375a08126d277a2575e67029b22f907a1cb0fec3b41f
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
1,967,052,370
Timestamp
1371746087
Median time
20 Jun 2013, 15:25 UTC
Weight
955,664 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000554eb607dd828b8b32

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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