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Block 497,978

Found by BTC.com 19 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,634 transactions paid 1.84 BTC in fees, 13% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,634 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
6 Dec 2017, 21:18 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
1.84396202 BTC
Reward
14.34396202 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
161 sat/vBmost paid 149 to 224 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 13% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 497,977, 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 497,979 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000009acd705222d28dbaf9a01074fd188fb302b55e96c7ecd6
Previous hash
000000000000000000524ddcf78091f3b6bdff1977fc2ca987a9e443cb589b03
Merkle root
699b48502d3d98f6e3bc6ccd4f8ff137471e504923e9b5ad0e13b2a410016109
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
1,585,624,964
Timestamp
1512595125
Median time
6 Dec 2017, 20:20 UTC
Weight
3,993,177 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c22f063e2c0b1c6acf6dda

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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