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Block 256,641

Found by GHash.IO 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 640 transactions paid 0.39870667 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 640 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Sept 2013, 19:23 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.39870667 BTC
Reward
25.39870667 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
134 sat/vBmost paid 74 to 274 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 15% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,640, 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 256,642 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002a353caecddd3ed84db074b598e9b5b56c3cfa450c244320b1
Previous hash
0000000000000020d26b622daefe7c3d1232978f0d314b5967a16696ac1642d6
Merkle root
5a51f70ee6468efac9745ef18ada12c9a2899083f39d0d8993878a3f076c6d21
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,485,506,965
Timestamp
1378581824
Median time
7 Sept 2013, 18:18 UTC
Weight
996,740 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d58a9f659ff02cba1c

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

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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