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Block 257,971

Found by 50BTC 6 minutes after the block before it. Its 126 transactions paid 0.05051982 BTC in fees, 0% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 126 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
14 Sept 2013, 14:51 UTC
Size
45 kB4.5% full by weight
Fees
0.05051982 BTC
Reward
25.05051982 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
90 sat/vBmost paid 25 to 244 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
86.93 M

Luck. Its hash was 2.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 54% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 257,970, 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 257,972 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000016a37dd73979f7eeaf42968680e0fe6f897b10f5a04b051322
Previous hash
0000000000000019c6b7c474dec092927fb3a8e84c6f03d61a60045ea355afc1
Merkle root
44df9e39c94e1bbc811077da0d0427d845f1a586742fd9935acf8c64a4b7f7f4
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1931679c
Nonce
1,928,002,591
Timestamp
1379170276
Median time
14 Sept 2013, 14:28 UTC
Weight
178,920 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f076457329adfc1978

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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