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Block 256,842

Found by 50BTC 12 minutes after the block before it. Its 651 transactions paid 0.39475022 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 651 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 01:58 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.39475022 BTC
Reward
25.39475022 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
123 sat/vBmost paid 44 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.7 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 63% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,841, 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 256,843 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001277c6aff5749164dde1ba235b42bbcdf973378af714d8c8b8
Previous hash
00000000000000071c815a31d774ae53c69814005f4ef119190ca660b65ea292
Merkle root
da787673c60df7b6b631640f63da16e14ecfbbb85ec421b2b33b34524ff92342
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,424,852,103
Timestamp
1378691915
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 01:07 UTC
Weight
996,564 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d99c2479610682276a

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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