Block 498,278
Found by BTC.com 39 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,346 transactions paid 5.32 BTC in fees, 30% of the miner's reward.
, 8 years 10 months ago
What's inside
Each square is one of its 2,346 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.
Facts
- Found
- 8 Dec 2017, 20:13 UTC
- Confirmations
- 473,439
- Transactions
- 2,346
- Size
- 1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
- Fees
- 5.31743224 BTC
- Reward
- 17.81743224 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Median fee rate
- 501 sat/vBmost paid 461 to 601 sat/vB
- Pool
- BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
- Difficulty
- 1.59 T
Luck. Its hash was 2.6 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 62% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 498,277, 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 498,279 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 000000000000000000435e2586e38dca002b34431fa29811ac1f92fc27ec31e1
- Previous hash
- 00000000000000000004211e05d41261271f682c63fa674edd1bdedf78fc70d9
- Merkle root
- 02250fdf630f2e9ae5e78db90a27d89b754dd0b36214569dc3bbe1f5fcadb890
- Version
- 0x20000000
- Bits
- 1800b0ed
- Nonce
- 3,605,203,937
- Timestamp
- 1512764013
- Median time
- 8 Dec 2017, 19:05 UTC
- Weight
- 3,993,021 WU
- Chainwork
- 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c3e11ace1e919e8febffc2
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: *Zc/BTC.COM/
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