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Block 257,009

Found by 50BTC 11 minutes after the block before it. Its 477 transactions paid 0.23013624 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 477 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Sept 2013, 22:03 UTC
Size
171 kB17.1% full by weight
Fees
0.23013624 BTC
Reward
25.23013624 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 12 to 341 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom 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 257,008, 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 257,010 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000029b44a34ed1e591566244a501a962e8b3dcc93f110c9470872
Previous hash
000000000000000ab9c6dcc1ef8cd680e201c5593eca41a826c94537f9a5dfab
Merkle root
c77c5a3d85ad49828d6adb8a36c0c89ca13161dcbd0b682deb645d0fa304d437
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,755,686,193
Timestamp
1378764187
Median time
9 Sept 2013, 21:29 UTC
Weight
684,584 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dcfd7c1d8874c4093c

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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