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Block 257,039

Found by 50BTC 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 305 transactions paid 0.12140004 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 2 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 305 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
10 Sept 2013, 02:16 UTC
Size
129 kB12.9% full by weight
Fees
0.12140004 BTC
Reward
25.12140004 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
74 sat/vBmost paid 13 to 220 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 13% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,038, 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 257,040 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002b0cd5a162274594bc7d0f792fc6880e6c14d6c3b977ea28f1
Previous hash
00000000000000023378346c5dc9c628aa1d72a98768a36b1360835d21fdb732
Merkle root
2111c2e2e2b0bdc27da32c06c35d5c83e457940160a5186bd9921f422703a0fa
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,955,370,371
Timestamp
1378779401
Median time
10 Sept 2013, 01:42 UTC
Weight
514,696 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dd98ef8000fa027540

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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