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Block 256,461

Found by 50BTC 4 minutes after the block before it. Its 305 transactions paid 0.14160005 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 305 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Sept 2013, 15:47 UTC
Size
129 kB12.9% full by weight
Fees
0.14160005 BTC
Reward
25.14160005 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
89 sat/vBmost paid 12 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 12% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,460, 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 256,462 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002b6055b412ca2516547e9768eb23b2484c3672175491d9ee5a
Previous hash
000000000000002a256c36bf6dac742c33741efd35b1543b1aded7d111966893
Merkle root
7dde056730035644be9be175c35a7932ddb0a2b8926c7397eae70d928d1c1437
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,631,447,211
Timestamp
1378482434
Median time
6 Sept 2013, 15:08 UTC
Weight
517,028 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d1e5eb16ccd0b63204

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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