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Block 256,871

Found by 50BTC 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 266 transactions paid 0.15450456 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 266 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 05:13 UTC
Size
139 kB13.9% full by weight
Fees
0.15450456 BTC
Reward
25.15450456 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 10 to 227 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 35% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,870, 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 256,872 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000020488211d87b903cd8686e8914dac6feb1a6b7ad0a1fa2e9ec
Previous hash
000000000000001d2641d29b22d6b397e2f05cb676430311c97fcf9704fbea9c
Merkle root
4762c2e472e2a6b91fc851edc26edc516bcdae53b157f29cebc30f960705e1f9
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
250,649,118
Timestamp
1378703630
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 04:31 UTC
Weight
557,476 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000da32695891430b4b90

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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