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Block 256,659

Found by 50BTC 40 minutes after the block before it. Its 786 transactions paid 0.49580012 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 786 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Sept 2013, 23:17 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.49580012 BTC
Reward
25.49580012 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
193 sat/vBmost paid 60 to 228 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 8.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 88% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,658, 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 256,660 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000060b82939a80278ad039989dcf3bb9350f9616751b280b79f5
Previous hash
000000000000001524754d6849cc76164bff974ddcbea24a8f6c5f68b60282ec
Merkle root
e9e77e466ffb76ee1180b32f23873886b63629b1ffb37dea07db334f15c7efc0
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,161,558,156
Timestamp
1378595844
Median time
7 Sept 2013, 22:22 UTC
Weight
996,540 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d5e7e4a0b50cebc7b8

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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