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Block 259,042

Found by GHash.IO 25 minutes after the block before it. Its 681 transactions paid 0.41486205 BTC in fees, 2% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 681 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Sept 2013, 15:56 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.41486205 BTC
Reward
25.41486205 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
134 sat/vBmost paid 78 to 244 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom 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 259,041, 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 259,043 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000246a63d846a45c454f7fb4d6ecd5edb8c1e693af2c3b6ff823
Previous hash
000000000000000d7b43848440f5c9bda72cc640aef6788518a897f65cc747e1
Merkle root
853e9e33d5a234796d1fcc3610df13dc5f3730a5fa22295ca2707e6b80dd8faa
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
1,672,101,380
Timestamp
1379692587
Median time
20 Sept 2013, 14:41 UTC
Weight
996,276 WU
Chainwork
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010c17cce83ac356ea67

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ ,p<R ghash.io

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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