Block 40
Found by an unknown miner 12 minutes after the block before it. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 50 BTC of new coins and no fees.
, 17 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
- 10 Jan 2009, 17:23 UTC
- Confirmations
- 974,865
- Size
- 215 B0.0% full by weight
- Fees
- 0 BTC
- Reward
- 50 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Pool
- Unknownthe coinbase names no pool we know
Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 30% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 39, 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 41 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 00000000b2f01f399bf503e55f25a1aa51067056d2eb81915cb91976968b69aa
- Previous hash
- 000000005665d506f6c3ccb5fd98624f9816a8a169f1d2327d1d4d6d3262ad12
- Merkle root
- 04391286b3aefbb5df4cdb515ac7fce7942525fa602e1d7757e90a4fd41a1e20
- Version
- 0x00000001
- Bits
- 1d00ffff
- Nonce
- 1,902,584,070
- Timestamp
- 1231608208
- Median time
- 10 Jan 2009, 16:32 UTC
- Weight
- 860 WU
- Chainwork
- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002900290029
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)
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