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Block 255,690

Found by 50BTC 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 382 transactions paid 6.63 BTC in fees, 21% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 382 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
2 Sept 2013, 10:56 UTC
Size
168 kB16.8% full by weight
Fees
6.62767023 BTC
Reward
31.62767023 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
120 sat/vBmost paid 17 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
65.75 M

Luck. Its hash was 6.3 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 84% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 255,689, 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 255,691 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000a66145d778fef9c35412bc16a0ed4a8404d598525a0d01c6c
Previous hash
00000000000000038c0997f19b9ca694e9fc2cc9ef68ddc2483fb5a1b17f1f23
Merkle root
b778a85e98a973e8b93a00edb8d532ece305d5d3fef7e197aa14fd3c1e24a4f8
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19415257
Nonce
3,487,018,790
Timestamp
1378119414
Median time
2 Sept 2013, 10:26 UTC
Weight
671,920 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c3f9638c2cd27fa7e7

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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