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Block 256,994

Found by 50BTC 13 minutes after the block before it. Its 614 transactions paid 0.24880013 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 614 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 20:28 UTC
Size
245 kB24.5% full by weight
Fees
0.24880013 BTC
Reward
25.24880013 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
72 sat/vBmost paid 12 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.7 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 64% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,993, 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 256,995 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000011ff04ca77ed69866bd165b4efe8072aa960ea0487dadfff2e
Previous hash
000000000000000f6c35af86005f4765a5e64297b436a8d30e4bf3d3c80f0d33
Merkle root
03ed00199f5b7f6b76a5f670fc6f7dcd9668329489a0b741a1fa97d6d145f3d2
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,914,971,543
Timestamp
1378758507
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 19:49 UTC
Weight
979,604 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dcafc26c4c3224d33a

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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