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Block 257,540

Found by BTC Guild 6 minutes after the block before it. Its 204 transactions paid 0.08310102 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 204 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 13:52 UTC
Size
75 kB7.5% full by weight
Fees
0.08310102 BTC
Reward
25.08310102 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
95 sat/vBmost paid 0.0 to 221 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 4.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 76% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,539, 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 257,541 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000ba86955e4bc05f79b022e3e4ad1d9065be967e3f5293c64b9
Previous hash
000000000000001ba26cc586d95b2ed6d3184cd8f2e969355bff100a663822b2
Merkle root
d4745c68bd79065f0a4f7e1df8492a14a9fb9c322f32e734247f108ae18a4cc1
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
3,120,944,664
Timestamp
1378993949
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 13:05 UTC
Weight
299,864 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e7bcf66c7744c81ab6

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Mined by BTC Guild

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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