Skip to content
DonateБГ

Block 278,970

Found by GHash.IO 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 476 transactions paid 0.18711238 BTC in fees, 1% of the miner's reward.

, 12 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 476 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Jan 2014, 18:49 UTC
Size
249 kB24.9% full by weight
Fees
0.18711238 BTC
Reward
25.18711238 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
53 sat/vBmost paid 42 to 114 sat/vB
Pool
GHash.IOfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 7.3 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 86% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 278,969, 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 278,971 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000006aa90ee1d0d7dc990e7a29d4656e73524408d33701e3d1e6
Previous hash
0000000000000002dc17e4d68331dbedbf22b24b5b6b0938c52dc1194940d623
Merkle root
69e982fc42be81a7d77800d228b06993f941d7e0e81885d923133e385ae6ad43
Version
0x00000002
Bits
1903071f
Nonce
257,571,444
Timestamp
1389034178
Median time
6 Jan 2014, 18:08 UTC
Weight
996,884 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000b2565a7e33c908ee6ac

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

Paid to 1CjPR7Z5ZSyWk6WtXvSFgkptmpoi4UM9BC

Something look wrong? Tell us