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Block 242,527

Found by 50BTC 16 minutes after the block before it. Its 544 transactions paid 3.2259 BTC in fees, 11% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 544 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
21 Jun 2013, 03:09 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
3.2259 BTC
Reward
28.2259 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 49 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash was 51 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 98% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,526, 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 242,528 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000465a022547c60c37b2a8da39f3990bf2f08029effd89d50d0
Previous hash
000000000000007ed6bfe648003f97a46dc9d04493a884dcf756a93c69e839bf
Merkle root
c0e4b74cc3725783f755d24c20adb31a738d345d1133a6b6b1b24f8661620058
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
2,508,657,999
Timestamp
1371784184
Median time
21 Jun 2013, 01:50 UTC
Weight
996,572 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000559f66e6fd72d6d4c0

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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