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Block 498,539

Found by BTC.com 4 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,444 transactions paid 1.58 BTC in fees, 11% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,444 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
10 Dec 2017, 08:29 UTC
Size
1.04 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
1.58043336 BTC
Reward
14.08043336 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
96 sat/vBmost paid 96 to 378 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 5.1 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 80% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,538, 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 498,540 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000022a1c416d26cc28b746061830d4e483b0a9d803feff932
Previous hash
0000000000000000003f2ce1c0061ce3c9c583d7b09cf9fc455eca9d7a701b6e
Merkle root
8403001b338d2c1b1ae5b399d2e1949302f3bc95f3b8ee9cc31693d6be089862
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
2,072,286,830
Timestamp
1512894553
Median time
10 Dec 2017, 07:50 UTC
Weight
3,993,079 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c55ac12ca234b8bf91a7a8

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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