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Block 259,040

Found by 50BTC 20 minutes after the block before it. Its 657 transactions paid 0.31982341 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 657 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Sept 2013, 15:19 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.31982341 BTC
Reward
25.31982341 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
102 sat/vBmost paid 38 to 222 sat/vB
Pool
50BTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
112.63 M

Luck. Its hash was 4.6 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 78% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 259,039, 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 259,041 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000854cd37bd5d04fe87845d3558892eb8d8a5b48804f07c4dff
Previous hash
000000000000000025648bf3ec8140d8384b106efff028e57c42faacfa812d8d
Merkle root
1605adda117f82ad7d50558f87ae13f8c8048c703896d5d4cad7889926f68a79
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
863,025,135
Timestamp
1379690359
Median time
20 Sept 2013, 14:35 UTC
Weight
996,776 WU
Chainwork
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010c0a5fb4443a34ef4d

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: _oHi from 50BTC.com 13

Paid to 1JVQw1siukrxGFTZykXFDtcf6SExJVuTVE

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