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Block 258,580

Found by 50BTC 1 hour 40 minutes after the block before it. Its 689 transactions paid 0.30677268 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 689 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
18 Sept 2013, 04:41 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.30677268 BTC
Reward
25.30677268 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
95 sat/vBmost paid 38 to 245 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
112.63 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 5% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 258,579, 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 258,581 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000002427082dc4442670b791893f48f558ca80ce4f91c7c82e57b1
Previous hash
000000000000000b9607fe2e40fe9f71856063766f53d9eb7818e3c4a6bb6676
Merkle root
d6423aabe249b8881223fa0421cb05103f94e242f769a74b771138f3ed29b7f8
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
2,870,029,305
Timestamp
1379479302
Median time
18 Sept 2013, 02:16 UTC
Weight
996,768 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fffa4304c505ad55f1

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: $j)R

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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