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Block 498,261

Found by BTC.com 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,530 transactions paid 4.50 BTC in fees, 26% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,530 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
8 Dec 2017, 17:44 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
4.5021117 BTC
Reward
17.0021117 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
439 sat/vBmost paid 417 to 510 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.4 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 59% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,260, 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 498,262 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000048d819219f812c0768c4dc9b9aa8f87286cf0bf2ea2cf5
Previous hash
0000000000000000004dc0ef844e60ca3a15a76fa75b0d13e5b9195d1f579c83
Merkle root
f3005159d5ad359e00096f491eee2f2f6c9e8631f88d652a405033725151ef20
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
1,360,969,040
Timestamp
1512755044
Median time
8 Dec 2017, 17:05 UTC
Weight
3,992,582 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c3c881bf22bee76690c7b4

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: *Zb/BTC.COM/'

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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