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Block 257,656

Found by 50BTC 1 minute after the block before it. Its 230 transactions paid 0.15878844 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 230 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
13 Sept 2013, 03:35 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.15878844 BTC
Reward
25.15878844 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
13 sat/vBmost paid 13 to 228 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 6% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,655, 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 257,657 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002e746a7020b7c6cb1dbe7c4fb2501fd0a83249d4072619a920
Previous hash
000000000000001ae04da9950663632c260747be4ef77d3715669e0adda8d833
Merkle root
409af726325b953c2965de2b23f23d003edc27ad54ead40b2c90ec8b34977398
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
91,383,507
Timestamp
1379043315
Median time
13 Sept 2013, 02:29 UTC
Weight
996,352 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ea1609e93836ecab4e

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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