Block 42
Found by an unknown miner 4 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, 17:39 UTC
- Confirmations
- 974,864
- 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 was 5.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 81% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 41, 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 43 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 00000000314e90489514c787d615cea50003af2023796ccdd085b6bcc1fa28f5
- Previous hash
- 00000000ad2b48c7032b6d7d4f2e19e54d79b1c159f5599056492f2cd7bb528b
- Merkle root
- 27c4d937dca276fb2b61e579902e8a876fd5b5abc17590410ced02d5a9f8e483
- Version
- 0x00000001
- Bits
- 1d00ffff
- Nonce
- 3,600,650,283
- Timestamp
- 1231609153
- Median time
- 10 Jan 2009, 16:59 UTC
- Weight
- 860 WU
- Chainwork
- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002b002b002b
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)
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