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Block 259,974

Found by BTC Guild 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 277 transactions paid 2.91 BTC in fees, 10% of the miner's reward.

, 13 years 1 month ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 277 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
25 Sept 2013, 05:00 UTC
Size
121 kB12.1% full by weight
Fees
2.91151668 BTC
Reward
27.91151668 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
82 sat/vBmost paid 17 to 386 sat/vB
Pool
BTC Guildfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
Difficulty
112.63 M

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 15% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 259,973, 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 259,975 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000203a5ef5cd83aef19fd4268058fecab9260e951e9e73fd059c
Previous hash
0000000000000020c9672018010aba3d6e8f36afa122a75b6fb176a3cc41e21f
Merkle root
f9309b94f129743c7a999595f0510d5e91d70a2a8090e95e44978be8b15d49e2
Version
0x00000002
Bits
19262222
Nonce
479,661,010
Timestamp
1380085257
Median time
25 Sept 2013, 04:31 UTC
Weight
482,492 WU
Chainwork
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012488957f006331ffbb

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Mined by BTC Guild

Paid to 14cZMQk89mRYQkDEj8Rn25AnGoBi5H6uer

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