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Block 256,531

Found by 50BTC 25 minutes after the block before it. Its 613 transactions paid 0.33670015 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 613 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Sept 2013, 03:00 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.33670015 BTC
Reward
25.33670015 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
113 sat/vBmost paid 61 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 7.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 86% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,530, 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 256,532 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000006e7fcb8be7f9fe28f6f97045c1c76fd78dbeda97cdf36d543
Previous hash
00000000000000299670b711e6a3fca6f136f54ee2896abb602611634eb0464b
Merkle root
07463eb20476b3cc8d27f37ea9591d5184bae58b94e724cb4b2475ca6c910349
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,695,536,516
Timestamp
1378522847
Median time
7 Sept 2013, 01:40 UTC
Weight
996,248 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d350a2fc90b247d8b8

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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