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Block 257,542

Found by 50BTC 29 seconds after the block before it. Its 24 transactions paid 0.0069 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 24 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 13:58 UTC
Size
13 kB1.3% full by weight
Fees
0.0069 BTC
Reward
25.0069 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
23 sat/vBmost paid 0.0 to 123 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 11% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,541, 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 257,543 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002bc1eb6978b960bf7e48e6b316b1ba334b51a115bba8d0072d
Previous hash
0000000000000027b654c7f8f60d0e209904d712433255fbe5ccd147e2f5f256
Merkle root
32b6873a133ab509861913d6743b3b6eee85b02bea5f13368bdab31b5b42f103
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,658,681,612
Timestamp
1378994303
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 13:30 UTC
Weight
51,672 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e7c7537307d632aa72

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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