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Block 256,960

Found by BTC Guild 22 minutes after the block before it. Its 679 transactions paid 0.60830105 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 679 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 15:44 UTC
Size
499 kB49.9% full by weight
Fees
0.60830105 BTC
Reward
25.60830105 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
52 sat/vBmost paid 50 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 32% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,959, 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 256,961 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000021c6ceb6bc81fac61e3dc176672e5e5d20569990b94ffc09f8
Previous hash
0000000000000011af64254bd8fc3ea2ea7f3dad3d3a2ad3c9aeebe65fc96816
Merkle root
40ac57138129307ee6af0ea7ae7eae341ff2906f1a0c9d016b5e90ba27c64e63
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,454,548,736
Timestamp
1378741464
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 14:48 UTC
Weight
1,996,748 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dbff94fcb28a1147be

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Mined by BTC Guild

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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