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Block 257,524

Found by BitMinter 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 599 transactions paid 0.26576839 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 599 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 12:21 UTC
Size
244 kB24.4% full by weight
Fees
0.26576839 BTC
Reward
25.26576839 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
77 sat/vBmost paid 19 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BitMinterfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.0 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 51% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,523, 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 257,525 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000182104048e3477ffdfe3b0528f156558e270102d6a557e8843
Previous hash
00000000000000190c5d8ba3bd8a767a822a70205b1a62d59e7b446669a52cdf
Merkle root
e7ece538892b8b351c5f0d713b5b00a55f71af071e624d94995365f7d9851c7c
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,153,038,676
Timestamp
1378988461
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 11:39 UTC
Weight
977,884 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e76a0e37f2b9739cd6

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

Paid to 19PkHafEN18mquJ9ChwZt5YEFoCdPP5vYB

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