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Block 253,988

Found by 50BTC 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 406 transactions paid 0.22411 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 406 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
24 Aug 2013, 11:15 UTC
Size
176 kB17.6% full by weight
Fees
0.22411 BTC
Reward
25.22411 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
80 sat/vBmost paid 11 to 227 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
50.81 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 55% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 253,987, 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 253,989 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000025d025dca68fd32a187068b474d0388b09b88290d60ea89e5b
Previous hash
0000000000000029b2ddbb10b9e55e911c6590c359cd85bf21f7c3c44d2d4c06
Merkle root
20dabd10f5c28982f61b0a91bd7a5cfc6cbb387c98eed12d2aa7364edb82354f
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19548732
Nonce
3,158,904,460
Timestamp
1377342907
Median time
24 Aug 2013, 10:31 UTC
Weight
705,672 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000aa032d5226933868b1

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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