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Block 242,844

Found by 50BTC 21 minutes after the block before it. Its 658 transactions paid 1.42 BTC in fees, 5% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 4 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 658 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
22 Jun 2013, 22:20 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
1.42060001 BTC
Reward
26.42060001 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
161 sat/vBmost paid 44 to 387 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
19.34 M

Luck. Its hash was 7.0 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 86% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 242,843, 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 242,845 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001f9bcb16d4a9196dbfdb30ef421c1eb77f0b44a8beaf6e8530
Previous hash
00000000000000746e8be5dd15c3784aba7fd75ae0f02a15c9a63f14c4957f20
Merkle root
9aa3a5b1e86f796f6fe4b8ce91f380382e14c4fd194a0ffab7fb9ed617c173df
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a00de15
Nonce
3,637,200,642
Timestamp
1371939616
Median time
22 Jun 2013, 21:20 UTC
Weight
996,320 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000570cd1054fe9e2a1d9

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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