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Block 498,898

Found by ViaBTC 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,710 transactions paid 3.64 BTC in fees, 23% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,710 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
12 Dec 2017, 12:40 UTC
Size
1.09 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
3.640586 BTC
Reward
16.140586 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
356 sat/vBmost paid 311 to 424 sat/vB
Pool
ViaBTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 7.7 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 87% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 498,897, 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 498,899 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000016e0394b0cbf09bb11df8eafa941468d6ca1e6aae37235
Previous hash
000000000000000000376be0fd0d2a908d496d5f01f236dd6b4ed68f3b6066d1
Merkle root
a4867a25fe7ecd4a62a4e64fda7e697352ee674f60de8deb7a962d128b22c75d
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
2,224,409,177
Timestamp
1513082448
Median time
12 Dec 2017, 11:30 UTC
Weight
3,993,121 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c762343be0968965270b2a

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /ViaBTC/glz, happy birthday/

Paid to 18cBEMRxXHqzWWCxZNtU91F5sbUNKhL5PX

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