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Block 257,552

Found by 50BTC 9 minutes after the block before it. Its 477 transactions paid 0.20726121 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 477 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Sept 2013, 15:27 UTC
Size
180 kB18.0% full by weight
Fees
0.20726121 BTC
Reward
25.20726121 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 0.0 to 223 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 32% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,551, 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 257,553 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000021c0fe0496cd1943e7bf25f8c12a212cbc497d88ef006d9e06
Previous hash
000000000000000081ebdc341fefbc2b0c7b0d8d587b7d207b91f446e2601787
Merkle root
9660f52a04f305cebe315374d72a9ddce9e89bead7ea10aec031e0a02d15b634
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
300,089,297
Timestamp
1378999666
Median time
12 Sept 2013, 14:53 UTC
Weight
720,024 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e7fb2493daad47791e

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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