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Block 257,508

Found by 50BTC 4 minutes after the block before it. Its 235 transactions paid 0.10365213 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 235 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 10:30 UTC
Size
89 kB8.9% full by weight
Fees
0.10365213 BTC
Reward
25.10365213 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
80 sat/vBmost paid 0.0 to 228 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 44% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,507, 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 257,509 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001bc1fcb9ae1fe9b08bcffeb36e9139d0d2bb2d048890e0f2af
Previous hash
0000000000000003e472e119a084d4671ed8ee2dafef65d62e64975a934aca25
Merkle root
3b0077c1504ff8c6243bea98ab59d3573d61bad25ba7d2cfebc49ad06d5f5601
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,986,002,626
Timestamp
1378981801
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 09:28 UTC
Weight
355,104 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e71726036e2e1f1ef6

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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