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Block 248,457

Found by 50BTC 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 340 transactions paid 0.1768 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 3 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 340 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
26 Jul 2013, 01:00 UTC
Size
159 kB15.9% full by weight
Fees
0.1768 BTC
Reward
25.1768 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
105 sat/vBmost paid 26 to 194 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
31.26 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 4% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 248,456, 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 248,458 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000848981f4794df700684571f9c231c3651825ed5c2c2685777e
Previous hash
000000000000004c1e1194db7c8fd63a349d3119e751f2d08691268b62d05cb0
Merkle root
79196e77a0082f7c1ed185674a4556c6826c1a1c5af008964b1b0e4a61050f3c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1a008968
Nonce
3,145,429,053
Timestamp
1374800418
Median time
26 Jul 2013, 00:29 UTC
Weight
635,392 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000075d2f7a6382c6754e8

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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