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Block 255,761

Found by 50BTC 23 minutes after the block before it. Its 696 transactions paid 0.38256712 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 696 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
2 Sept 2013, 18:36 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.38256712 BTC
Reward
25.38256712 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
113 sat/vBmost paid 26 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
65.75 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 255,760, 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 255,762 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001d79b11ae6408b852eef967e9772b37341f06344e417f643e5
Previous hash
0000000000000016983c67fcf9795c9bd4e9a5c14dcaecfbc4eb27af29797129
Merkle root
26757b86240c18af3ac097b5efa33f1f9ab0a5227998a613156621e36c59776c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19415257
Nonce
3,172,072,792
Timestamp
1378146976
Median time
2 Sept 2013, 17:36 UTC
Weight
995,660 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c50fa48aac66c3357a

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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