Block 256,542
Found by 50BTC 21 minutes after the block before it. Its 627 transactions paid 0.30180017 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.
, 13 years 2 months ago
What's inside
Each square is one of its 627 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.
Facts
- Found
- 7 Sept 2013, 05:11 UTC
- Confirmations
- 718,415
- Transactions
- 627
- Size
- 249 kB24.9% full by weight
- Fees
- 0.30180017 BTC
- Reward
- 25.30180017 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Median fee rate
- 106 sat/vBmost paid 44 to 220 sat/vB
- Pool
- 50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
- Difficulty
- 86.93 M
Luck. Its hash was 30 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 97% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 256,541, 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 256,543 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 0000000000000001a235d98ea40ee8f82a3d72e2f5b74437dd3da80e76f91bb4
- Previous hash
- 0000000000000028dbdc8a283cb25cd5e94332fc24ef8a788367394b2e771f81
- Merkle root
- c8ac894bb4f3f959ceb632dbaa3caf4c85fb3f6c67e2b84aaab0d8b5062ac1e1
- Version
- 0x00000002
- Bits
- 1931679c
- Nonce
- 3,398,122,256
- Timestamp
- 1378530678
- Median time
- 7 Sept 2013, 04:02 UTC
- Weight
- 995,200 WU
- Chainwork
- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d389a2a0abd211ef42
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)
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