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Block 257,042

Found by 50BTC 1 minute after the block before it. Its 43 transactions paid 0.01723748 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 43 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
10 Sept 2013, 02:28 UTC
Size
21 kB2.1% full by weight
Fees
0.01723748 BTC
Reward
25.01723748 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
38 sat/vBmost paid 7.0 to 193 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 3% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,041, 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 257,043 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000003019614fc704ad49e77c0bc0e956379657c01cb6eeef60c48c
Previous hash
00000000000000196d3509e1fe12cdc5da8bcc916a9114911206430962a5c770
Merkle root
332381153e5b1cd3ea7a4d8449c2d2a3549e232873f9305cb113f85333b88e0d
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,769,268,263
Timestamp
1378780093
Median time
10 Sept 2013, 02:06 UTC
Weight
84,536 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dda87b09d9d4224cda

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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