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Block 255,840

Found by 50BTC 11 minutes after the block before it. Its 415 transactions paid 0.22194013 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 415 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
3 Sept 2013, 05:29 UTC
Size
168 kB16.8% full by weight
Fees
0.22194013 BTC
Reward
25.22194013 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 22 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
65.75 M

Luck. Its hash was 3.8 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 74% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 255,839, 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 255,841 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000011220d5a2c139998d79dc7a4f49afa94d570a8c18fad288be4
Previous hash
000000000000002886649f1f0cf11a8cc4a412bc62e40406dfff773b5c783985
Merkle root
b3a59e8f185f71f900a874b7e3d94f2865df76daf1ab9472af71a4a4f90872af
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19415257
Nonce
2,292,717,111
Timestamp
1378186179
Median time
3 Sept 2013, 04:46 UTC
Weight
672,504 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c6453fc9e76d1595b5

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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