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Block 257,856

Found by BitMinter 20 minutes after the block before it. Its 701 transactions paid 0.37660409 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 701 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
14 Sept 2013, 03:01 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.37660409 BTC
Reward
25.37660409 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
114 sat/vBmost paid 38 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
BitMinterfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 19% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,855, 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 257,857 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000027ff96c78ed8363a5b300cbaf4cd04d2188ea2a696372f5561
Previous hash
0000000000000022fd20dcc901235f35c39291a0d9b357cf6b2a0c6e48081323
Merkle root
1bd1e46686ac147897be905a15af0c3b837407a43d32d28ff5d00cffbb2b7f1b
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
2,580,075,300
Timestamp
1379127663
Median time
14 Sept 2013, 02:18 UTC
Weight
996,348 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ee226079b1048cd0be

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

Paid to 19PkHafEN18mquJ9ChwZt5YEFoCdPP5vYB

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