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Block 278,857

Found by GHash.IO 4 minutes after the block before it. Its 669 transactions paid 0.20755697 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 12 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 669 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Jan 2014, 02:44 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.20755697 BTC
Reward
25.20755697 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
51 sat/vBmost paid 42 to 220 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.3 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 57% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 278,856, 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 278,858 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000001512191e8dec7c873430301cddd9899781dbcfbd7398d866e
Previous hash
0000000000000002580118f6d6872bf25643fba8431e49f0c203d7a9b107d124
Merkle root
c220ca4760fb79575ce5cf97684fbbd87f1b7dd6fa099986a8709b747e4112c7
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1903071f
Nonce
3,064,223,494
Timestamp
1388976252
Median time
6 Jan 2014, 01:51 UTC
Weight
996,408 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000b001393b7c7b795edc8

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /P2SH/ mm,F bY!QvV Happy NY! Yours GHash.IO

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

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