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Block 253,556

Found by 50BTC 55 seconds after the block before it. Its 839 transactions paid 0.16531 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 839 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
22 Aug 2013, 07:47 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.16531 BTC
Reward
25.16531 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
44 sat/vBmost paid 19 to 193 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
50.81 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 2% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 253,555, 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 253,557 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000052de1b15a5f3b64a13fa98689c2ca25c74f974182c4da0572c
Previous hash
00000000000000530df6d36aca0bd15d14b6cc5f609c7d97cb52def3267b5ccc
Merkle root
ae9955b595cbd78e261c0cb8825d5d617dd5721a40a43ddfe6ae06146d525eb2
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19548732
Nonce
2,039,486,264
Timestamp
1377157654
Median time
22 Aug 2013, 07:07 UTC
Weight
996,160 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a4e6d4c6a92cbd17c1

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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