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Block 256,500

Found by GHash.IO 30 minutes after the block before it. Its 590 transactions paid 0.35560569 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 590 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Sept 2013, 21:48 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.35560569 BTC
Reward
25.35560569 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
113 sat/vBmost paid 53 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 6.5 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 85% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,499, 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 256,501 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000079629c8da630eb5c5c7cdf243f4ae1296f4b67ac952d4b9d8
Previous hash
000000000000002ebd053c05c68a991780137b2b1e4d3b232b6795bf5381e935
Merkle root
3b6b154b156b061710112fcab2d2a577b51fad17c9918c8a3d1ecb23d0abf8fb
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
986,591,848
Timestamp
1378504117
Median time
6 Sept 2013, 20:20 UTC
Weight
996,516 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d2b00116cfe45424d6

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ ghash.io

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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