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Block 498,258

Found by AntPool 1 minute after the block before it. Its 2,825 transactions paid 3.99 BTC in fees, 24% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,825 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
8 Dec 2017, 17:06 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
3.99146213 BTC
Reward
16.49146213 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
393 sat/vBmost paid 380 to 401 sat/vB
Pool
AntPoolfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 6.7 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 85% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,257, 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 498,259 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000001a49f594cae3f29c4aabb9f93b38a2a1434dc994d2eafe
Previous hash
000000000000000000a746eb5c7a45b774cbf2c3c9f8400edcd3cc950635a012
Merkle root
e60384806ad67c41f7fafa2e874fc27872203ad8a4aaeb02d0633531fe14c0e6
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
2,499,724,474
Timestamp
1512752807
Median time
8 Dec 2017, 16:25 UTC
Weight
3,993,030 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c3c42a804199b804ea182a

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: Mined by AntPool3( Z*

Paid to 1Nh7uHdvY6fNwtQtM1G5EZAFPLC33B59rB

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