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Block 256,493

Found by BTC Guild 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 606 transactions paid 0.33560002 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 606 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Sept 2013, 20:18 UTC
Size
223 kB22.3% full by weight
Fees
0.33560002 BTC
Reward
25.33560002 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
98 sat/vBmost paid 38 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.6 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 62% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,492, 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 256,494 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000012df7b30803c256519303f4ba5f96a50dc8b97e478ebeac6d5
Previous hash
0000000000000025dcc0497a56bf3bfadf95ce7322f91dd2686346509c9de100
Merkle root
1a44c21e5cf8559d9a8c8216f1782bf9ed6f796ed6b05f5170c1a3afa6994b4c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,400,733,676
Timestamp
1378498712
Median time
6 Sept 2013, 19:41 UTC
Weight
891,412 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d28bbb7fd5e75f2dc4

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

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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