Block 40,844
Found by an unknown miner 3 minutes after the block before it. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 50 BTC of new coins and no fees.
, 16 years 8 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
- 17 Feb 2010, 16:37 UTC
- Confirmations
- 931,776
- Size
- 216 B0.0% full by weight
- Fees
- 0 BTC
- Reward
- 50 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Pool
- Unknownthe coinbase names no pool we know
- Difficulty
- 2.53
Luck. Its hash was 9.7 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 90% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 40,843, 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 40,845 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 000000000a7bc88fd3d1a4667c24f4bb1e65d9fded8760c2b1066bb1efeb13f3
- Previous hash
- 00000000617494b14ce82e671a8c7e41e8211250752dda42d99edd831b13ebb6
- Merkle root
- 3254519a9623b1a2003b2ba499157ab8002f0d297ce93fbb530af04176103f9a
- Version
- 0x00000001
- Bits
- 1c654657
- Nonce
- 69,358,289
- Timestamp
- 1266424626
- Median time
- 17 Feb 2010, 16:08 UTC
- Weight
- 864 WU
- Chainwork
- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000afafd521d3ba
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)
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