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Block 498,543

Found by BTC.com 14 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,038 transactions paid 3.45 BTC in fees, 22% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,038 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
10 Dec 2017, 09:13 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
3.45010699 BTC
Reward
15.95010699 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
359 sat/vBmost paid 150 to 500 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 14% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,542, 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 498,544 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000098c97be9700f342a8b93733e7be45b208ca9a0e891ef9e
Previous hash
000000000000000000acc51a73ef6f336c58f6106e4fb8bdfd0aa2a2b99b892e
Merkle root
da04f9065f2e6163f9398d0529c4384d6cbaa5390250c24e9928972297a7e5f7
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
3,778,098,178
Timestamp
1512897212
Median time
10 Dec 2017, 08:25 UTC
Weight
3,992,738 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c5608ad5ce664d41c53c60

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: ,Zb/BTC.COM/j%L

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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