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Block 256,291

Found by 50BTC 22 minutes after the block before it. Its 682 transactions paid 0.41574446 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 682 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
5 Sept 2013, 18:58 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.41574446 BTC
Reward
25.41574446 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
146 sat/vBmost paid 52 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 3.3 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 70% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,290, 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 256,292 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000eff0b9ad6c63cae18b2c3ca434f62083a77e09a5c254b9240
Previous hash
00000000000000021f594b3f66f4caa4251d538e4450bd3f03106d0008845d00
Merkle root
165b2391e6cbedcb21972268bde665b89ce04e8f48236a51e606318d12544b1c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,334,921,488
Timestamp
1378407509
Median time
5 Sept 2013, 18:29 UTC
Weight
996,456 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ce7507e8cc88547898

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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