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Block 258,693

Found by Polmine 36 minutes after the block before it. Its 512 transactions paid 1.22 BTC in fees, 5% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 512 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
18 Sept 2013, 19:57 UTC
Size
155 kB15.5% full by weight
Fees
1.21608889 BTC
Reward
26.21608889 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
193 sat/vBmost paid 89 to 245 sat/vB
Pool
Polminefrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
112.63 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 17% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 258,692, 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 258,694 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000001fc860f721df964a9a6b20ea7d6ee8daa56803fc9e8094a340
Previous hash
0000000000000016941606bd0a8116a9b65e5793fbfe4e4f766368706d189671
Merkle root
a5bae132874ff04a6771a843651f047a5137306d5d41b1c6b5d2d6a7df1d038e
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
1,278,811,332
Timestamp
1379534256
Median time
18 Sept 2013, 19:03 UTC
Weight
619,124 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000102f0dcfcae49ad412e

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

Paid to 16cv7wyeG6RRqhvJpY21CnsjxuKj2gAoK2

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