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Block 497,259

Found by BTC.com 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,478 transactions paid 1.60 BTC in fees, 11% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 11 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,478 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
2 Dec 2017, 21:43 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
1.60147416 BTC
Reward
14.10147416 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
157 sat/vBmost paid 120 to 201 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 25% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 497,258, 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 497,260 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000009c1af2ccf71ebbc072d53bd8e5ba46c09b71b3ec3915d3
Previous hash
000000000000000000362d17dbf0d8d3e78121a2ed3d2d6d16c5995712f89d9e
Merkle root
4c9454a53a1a0605f254ef5ff82f8957088cc6340f9b0025e0ad865ceabf6fd5
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800d0f6
Nonce
1,636,802,209
Timestamp
1512251039
Median time
2 Dec 2017, 20:26 UTC
Weight
3,993,154 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000beb82e7591af1f479c3ec8

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: #Zc/BTC.COM/

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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