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Block 498,421

Found by BTC.TOP 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,554 transactions paid 4.08 BTC in fees, 25% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,554 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
9 Dec 2017, 17:05 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
4.08084039 BTC
Reward
16.58084039 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
397 sat/vBmost paid 381 to 442 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.TOPfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.0 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 50% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,420, 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 498,422 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000005799f1528fe4a21910ca23939fc332c919a409fbe0b20d
Previous hash
0000000000000000005d7ae46d0dedbe6ef806ca77e40566a59d320b4cb98a8b
Merkle root
0d2f6eacc58a2f73b2581847b254768527f1cd61d0b9a750f1a8efd97c3db2d4
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
2,492,211,548
Timestamp
1512839132
Median time
9 Dec 2017, 16:00 UTC
Weight
3,993,232 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c4b0042e0a7e1bbea00474

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: ?/BTC.TOP/

Paid to 1Hz96kJKF2HLPGY15JWLB5m9qGNxvt8tHJ

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