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Block 256,490

Found by BTC Guild 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 398 transactions paid 0.21692611 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 398 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Sept 2013, 19:51 UTC
Size
184 kB18.4% full by weight
Fees
0.21692611 BTC
Reward
25.21692611 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
83 sat/vBmost paid 11 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 16% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,489, 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 256,491 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000296a7c0f849c43f2532b4f68935b97a3779351ec6931d31fd8
Previous hash
00000000000000208f71e8eadc57ef22f5d26608c7f6ddb9a1519a1eade6dc9d
Merkle root
d9069482fa705f5fc1dab3425476e6316268df873d981abcb0af1cce950a4e30
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,225,606,615
Timestamp
1378497090
Median time
6 Sept 2013, 19:24 UTC
Weight
736,224 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d27c2ff5fd0d3f562a

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Mined by BTC Guild

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