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Block 498,398

Found by BTC.com 3 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,648 transactions paid 4.17 BTC in fees, 25% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,648 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Dec 2017, 13:23 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
4.16872413 BTC
Reward
16.66872413 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
416 sat/vBmost paid 402 to 431 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 13% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,397, 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 498,399 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000998b2888676193f824cedccdcb4e1e1fa0964137c5fdcc
Previous hash
0000000000000000004d612b45bb05b4c8b9d6168916b1a4fe0728d55e14a1e5
Merkle root
5b784410d452b4bd84a7a7df19bf3283aff6d3d2cd6dbbd8010a08511dd9e240
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
3,872,387,296
Timestamp
1512825800
Median time
9 Dec 2017, 12:08 UTC
Weight
3,992,936 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c48ebca14c6105d1f76d52

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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