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Block 242,469

Found by 50BTC 10 minutes after the block before it. Its 650 transactions paid 0.8629 BTC in fees, 3% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 650 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Jun 2013, 18:52 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.8629 BTC
Reward
25.8629 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
194 sat/vBmost paid 77 to 387 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 49% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,468, 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 242,470 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000072031952cdce58e6160e925a4790b521b9961fb4ccd8b94b1d
Previous hash
00000000000000b46c9a0c807d2fdfe2c8bfdf5640921b7b58ee883d1869d5d2
Merkle root
6dcbcdd63cd4c543c340b41dc09e7b6a8d97e7db8c5f799c0d9b3eeab236d77e
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
421,391,291
Timestamp
1371754355
Median time
20 Jun 2013, 17:56 UTC
Weight
996,748 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000555c8b356df4e197ce

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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