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Block 242,606

Found by 50BTC 18 minutes after the block before it. Its 661 transactions paid 0.4142 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 661 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
21 Jun 2013, 14:59 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.4142 BTC
Reward
25.4142 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
133 sat/vBmost paid 50 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 24% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,605, 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 242,607 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000a98bffddcf0cfcb5f3cb03fb85dcca09301f640e0ca5ced021
Previous hash
00000000000000ab0e0cd1aa8e1238b59df8537b3bc2099c01f772bdbaa839b2
Merkle root
b28741f5c498e416e6279526599030c01a19ebb58f1f8bc71deb4a863e3402c2
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
2,607,058,395
Timestamp
1371826754
Median time
21 Jun 2013, 14:04 UTC
Weight
995,872 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000055fa77a849b8e2a7c3

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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