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Block 498,331

Found by BTC.com 6 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,613 transactions paid 2.81 BTC in fees, 18% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,613 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Dec 2017, 03:06 UTC
Size
1.03 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
2.80642956 BTC
Reward
15.30642956 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
182 sat/vBmost paid 177 to 461 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 3.6 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 73% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,330, 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 498,332 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000309dfa5b6879ac61bf287a0a944f8094729c7012b6f1eb
Previous hash
000000000000000000685abd69645b693698c9d7991aceda8898e01d663dd8f5
Merkle root
cf57f37babed384b58de875c2c7ffadd4bdbe775cd2c2124054a200cb8b3e722
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
778,400,204
Timestamp
1512788806
Median time
9 Dec 2017, 02:41 UTC
Weight
3,993,097 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c42dcacfa8228e4d177248

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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