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Block 257,499

Found by BitMinter 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 270 transactions paid 0.13120002 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 270 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 09:13 UTC
Size
134 kB13.4% full by weight
Fees
0.13120002 BTC
Reward
25.13120002 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
48 sat/vBmost paid 12 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BitMinterfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 4.9 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 79% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,498, 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 257,500 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000a2e4e1dd5ad5847c0146535e42e13b8e01442abf667c0f498
Previous hash
0000000000000028163252ee821e7e81c46795be971e00b65d8c843c78fafe69
Merkle root
f2f190911746dca188c598bd98e3d05e4f716936afa2037bd10ec5fb38c460ca
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
164,137,162
Timestamp
1378977239
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 09:01 UTC
Weight
536,676 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e6e88365e39fbf9828

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: BitMinter /P2SH/

Paid to 19PkHafEN18mquJ9ChwZt5YEFoCdPP5vYB

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