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Block 256,642

Found by 50BTC 27 minutes after the block before it. Its 657 transactions paid 0.37072038 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 657 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Sept 2013, 19:51 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.37072038 BTC
Reward
25.37072038 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
122 sat/vBmost paid 74 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 12% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,641, 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 256,643 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002b429f0f3e8978daf4602d89290baff6d5ec8caab72e1f3973
Previous hash
000000000000002a353caecddd3ed84db074b598e9b5b56c3cfa450c244320b1
Merkle root
e089e3e93884012c70670641ceacf8204506fc85e1b5f35be61103758f6a6053
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
979,340,379
Timestamp
1378583468
Median time
7 Sept 2013, 18:31 UTC
Weight
996,544 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d58fcde8e838e201fa

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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