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Block 255,953

Found by 50BTC 20 minutes after the block before it. Its 637 transactions paid 0.37388417 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 637 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
3 Sept 2013, 19:54 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.37388417 BTC
Reward
25.37388417 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 52 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
65.75 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 27% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 255,952, 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 255,954 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002fb163eb51c1a619656f9cc91df2ef94a8880fe13a8bc8862a
Previous hash
000000000000003c5be833cc03ef979b4dfa21895fc8e03dc8d2287b99243079
Merkle root
8adbfb7100124ac03f5a2952d9a3d978c3495b9580b0b7b93332597144a26c1e
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19415257
Nonce
1,187,954,414
Timestamp
1378238095
Median time
3 Sept 2013, 18:28 UTC
Weight
996,896 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c8001a9c3f1826f53a

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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Bitcoin Block 255,953, Mined 3 Sept 2013 | Explore21