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Block 256,999

Found by BTC Guild 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 227 transactions paid 0.0987 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 227 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 21:04 UTC
Size
86 kB8.6% full by weight
Fees
0.0987 BTC
Reward
25.0987 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 22 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 28 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 96% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 256,998, 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 257,000 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000001c6cb0aa080f03e021187879f66b8e0cc88a648b8d6fda5ad
Previous hash
000000000000000f76d45ef2cb4f5519023a9389142ad99c24ec40b351e95709
Merkle root
1f6c3ba2f76e9e0b5775f3ec180945c1978001ff6cb00b4a5216605e60852913
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,750,229,361
Timestamp
1378760660
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 20:28 UTC
Weight
344,428 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dcc9aafcb59daf3a90

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

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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