Block 278,240
Found by Eligius 17 seconds after the block before it. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 25 BTC of new coins and no fees.
, 12 years 10 months ago
What's inside
Each square is one of its 1 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.
Facts
- Found
- 2 Jan 2014, 06:44 UTC
- Confirmations
- 696,003
- Size
- 249 B0.0% full by weight
- Fees
- 0 BTC
- Reward
- 25 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Pool
- Eligiusfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
- Difficulty
- 1.42 G
Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 15% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 278,239, 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 278,241 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 00000000000000029386e70f48ad7e227d09f14509dbdcb8295c271e1ee5577b
- Previous hash
- 00000000000000022ea24fdf05c625a7b0a33d823a19960dd6610666586bbc40
- Merkle root
- e9cb848aa255cf26341551fe3c3da1ecf05110efdd39e34c2d246bbf0ca24871
- Version
- 0x00000002
- Bits
- 1903071f
- Nonce
- 4,097,824,275
- Timestamp
- 1388645077
- Median time
- 2 Jan 2014, 05:08 UTC
- Weight
- 996 WU
- Chainwork
- 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a344c9da8849c8a7604
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Eligius /ss315/
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