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Block 498,097

Found by BitFury 24 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,587 transactions paid 3.42 BTC in fees, 21% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,587 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
7 Dec 2017, 16:51 UTC
Size
1.05 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
3.41735367 BTC
Reward
15.91735367 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
322 sat/vBmost paid 297 to 371 sat/vB
Pool
BitFuryfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 4.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 76% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,096, 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 498,098 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000029b70e8c153283a2641e8e7958566e19a5580c1e225f33
Previous hash
0000000000000000008830065887f72e5dd5040c80f8ad9a61db431b3adb1f84
Merkle root
4d8178e345fab448fae0f8d865e692e0ac6017b94ad115aa4ec86f689e4a037c
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
4,254,746,816
Timestamp
1512665502
Median time
7 Dec 2017, 15:25 UTC
Weight
3,992,822 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c2db35a70ece1e8c4df63c

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /Bitfury/

Paid to 1GbVUSW5WJmRCpaCJ4hanUny77oDaWW4to

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