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Block 498,540

Found by BTC.com 25 seconds after the block before it. Its 2,856 transactions paid 1.09 BTC in fees, 8% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,856 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
1.01 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
1.08859269 BTC
Reward
13.58859269 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
96 sat/vBmost paid 95 to 98 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 4.9 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 79% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,539, 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 498,541 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000002464e658da2d5f20cd365cb00200473367a5583f7a11f6
Previous hash
00000000000000000022a1c416d26cc28b746061830d4e483b0a9d803feff932
Merkle root
1634208bf5e93eeac6ad784bc374af598ced1c3293e9814630e2d0988799182b
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
3,345,196,972
Timestamp
1512894578
Median time
10 Dec 2017, 08:05 UTC
Weight
3,992,950 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c55c3396ed411de01e8cd6

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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