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Block 256,687

Found by 50BTC 10 minutes after the block before it. Its 455 transactions paid 0.24370006 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 455 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
8 Sept 2013, 03:08 UTC
Size
173 kB17.3% full by weight
Fees
0.24370006 BTC
Reward
25.24370006 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
103 sat/vBmost paid 14 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 28% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,686, 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 256,688 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000023ba7a28ff07584c78348e6f5da8dab10f41e40e1ed19fe4c8
Previous hash
0000000000000026cd3e02aa4f0290ed69e40b236d66f8daafcce90389d1c9a2
Merkle root
0162b8e7bc2179600d5fcf3c1dc1a25ed543a42ee29e806a9c24d8497a032914
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,866,152,697
Timestamp
1378609701
Median time
8 Sept 2013, 02:20 UTC
Weight
690,088 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d678fafc9d00bfa400

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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