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Block 258,555

Found by 50BTC 14 minutes after the block before it. Its 428 transactions paid 50.18 BTC in fees, 67% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 428 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
17 Sept 2013, 22:53 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
50.17993477 BTC
Reward
75.17993477 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
44 sat/vBmost paid 13 to 193 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
112.63 M

Luck. Its hash was 14 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 93% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 258,554, 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 258,556 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000002cec5afd81bfa3486ee3b43cf0841c1e3d044ab223cd1d72a
Previous hash
00000000000000226d4dfe57da2cb35378a37a3247026a9faa065ac6f0fc53fa
Merkle root
8d5431ffffff6e5c5816ffba01184850a3abeebd23f8872a6d3773a51c743f90
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
2,310,566,000
Timestamp
1379458403
Median time
17 Sept 2013, 22:04 UTC
Weight
996,112 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ff526dfb3b5384932c

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

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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