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Block 256,309

Found by 50BTC 12 minutes after the block before it. Its 656 transactions paid 0.32713574 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 656 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
5 Sept 2013, 20:46 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.32713574 BTC
Reward
25.32713574 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
105 sat/vBmost paid 22 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 4.9 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 80% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,308, 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 256,310 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000a00fd2b77b9808adce5a65a7ef665f9a1e537453548dabcf1
Previous hash
000000000000000696591811eb1df654a2ee33056bb8bfaea7024a6e1ff46ae3
Merkle root
c2584758c99473e9d740151ff326f0022fb25e5c843f9c8d64a278593be9460c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,050,617,681
Timestamp
1378413992
Median time
5 Sept 2013, 20:12 UTC
Weight
995,876 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ced24d23e1a5138634

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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