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Block 256,973

Found by GHash.IO 11 minutes after the block before it. Its 495 transactions paid 0.23799403 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 495 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 17:25 UTC
Size
242 kB24.2% full by weight
Fees
0.23799403 BTC
Reward
25.23799403 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
66 sat/vBmost paid 10 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 16% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,972, 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 256,974 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000029bdfbab7fc5f6f70d3743e95bdae89f5479169d441cf25221
Previous hash
0000000000000007a2f07a1d1d4d09175b4a43d05b30b5de3b55dc19497d5105
Merkle root
a42d43c77e903d2866b01ff796edde59262a58238a8b99feb062cf52b07a258a
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,405,719,727
Timestamp
1378747528
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 17:03 UTC
Weight
968,348 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dc42f1a75e3b45ee04

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ ghash.io

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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