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Block 242,580

Found by 50BTC 22 minutes after the block before it. Its 600 transactions paid 0.4345 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 600 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
21 Jun 2013, 11:45 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.4345 BTC
Reward
25.4345 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 76 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash was 28 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 96% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,579, 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 242,581 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000007dc017647d4c465e45fbf4617ef55f542486b4e83db46ea11
Previous hash
000000000000003f6ccc2aaaf94dcebdd9f1853d92fcccccd66d797e1fb6fae1
Merkle root
60cf25c2357301fecec7a416582891841efb1444107149786202bbbbb182c84e
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
878,369,620
Timestamp
1371815121
Median time
21 Jun 2013, 10:56 UTC
Weight
996,484 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000055dc7f1ae6167d8c71

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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