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Block 256,589

Found by BitMinter 12 minutes after the block before it. Its 395 transactions paid 0.15640443 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 395 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Sept 2013, 11:35 UTC
Size
146 kB14.6% full by weight
Fees
0.15640443 BTC
Reward
25.15640443 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 14 to 194 sat/vB
Pool
BitMinterfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 30% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,588, 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 256,590 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002295cf353691eb14f208a193e5417acbc95fc1dfbe519e8f20
Previous hash
000000000000000f2149048b59b322b14440be72d0a84739a9b8f2f17a34dbef
Merkle root
71034734bd6de10bf92eb0aa92c6125cb9846f400466cd0e6d8f74e63f0dc851
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,582,240,899
Timestamp
1378553729
Median time
7 Sept 2013, 10:52 UTC
Weight
585,360 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d47d2cbaf12b5a2104

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: BitMinter /P2SH/ us1N

Paid to 19PkHafEN18mquJ9ChwZt5YEFoCdPP5vYB

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