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Block 257,459

Found by 50BTC 15 minutes after the block before it. Its 375 transactions paid 0.1883318 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 375 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 04:04 UTC
Size
189 kB18.9% full by weight
Fees
0.1883318 BTC
Reward
25.1883318 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
72 sat/vBmost paid 22 to 220 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 39% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,458, 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 257,460 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001e2f1600919589e5e6a8616ddef165278096970c1c794c4036
Previous hash
000000000000000f1400a5efdd4e9b6bea9590d612f6e274614a903ac1aa6f5c
Merkle root
679db681474f4c13ac9b2606b9d7b8d551b63b2cdb8bd909dbbcf730b159052a
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,181,403,922
Timestamp
1378958686
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 03:14 UTC
Weight
757,876 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e6193ee298436c5d78

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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