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Block 257,888

Found by GHash.IO 19 minutes after the block before it. Its 466 transactions paid 0.27283033 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 466 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
14 Sept 2013, 06:23 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.27283033 BTC
Reward
25.27283033 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 44 to 193 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom 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 257,887, 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 257,889 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002c24bc0bcffcc54a7b7363cb83fd9b7522a143e5a5114a9cb5
Previous hash
000000000000002f181db8c8f1d74aa0f2c0a61c89f7d95af4e9c9f87e95aa69
Merkle root
9b04ee2ab6ebef8b8a2ee1958015d712bd4abb9a4314b5b93a858b71a2434055
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
4,187,676,941
Timestamp
1379139798
Median time
14 Sept 2013, 05:50 UTC
Weight
996,948 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000eec830e2ba1b35cc7e

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ ghash.io

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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