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Block 256,962

Found by BTC Guild 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 857 transactions paid 0.44614072 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 857 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 16:10 UTC
Size
499 kB49.9% full by weight
Fees
0.44614072 BTC
Reward
25.44614072 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
54 sat/vBmost paid 26 to 193 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 28% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,961, 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 256,963 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000023b14ee4103f97921d6163f2baa37d2e7efc5d056cb84a340b
Previous hash
000000000000000c15dfb68cc1abead192f718cf8b772977d79938f3a4259afa
Merkle root
7f8d88d0a18f685ee52250c282ce2cb716732feaaeab98fa70ee61de0b235247
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,201,410,928
Timestamp
1378743024
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 15:02 UTC
Weight
1,996,408 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dc09f203431b7bd77a

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

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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