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Block 256,859

Found by 50BTC 1 minute after the block before it. Its 63 transactions paid 0.0395 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 63 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 03:37 UTC
Size
25 kB2.5% full by weight
Fees
0.0395 BTC
Reward
25.0395 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
134 sat/vBmost paid 24 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 27% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,858, 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 256,860 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000023dfa8fa3d0587230a5cc99e4af09cd4a35a85a5c1e6a4861c
Previous hash
000000000000001e3f4347108149247aa603e07a394702e9ef59f30471fcabca
Merkle root
279179ed33e22218911d60d5a7c87bcb6bfa223722ee27b9150109a9911ea0dc
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,139,119,899
Timestamp
1378697848
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 03:24 UTC
Weight
99,204 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d9f43b312dda8bed28

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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