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Block 499,957

Found by BTC.com 59 seconds after the block before it. Its 1,836 transactions paid 2.53 BTC in fees, 17% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,836 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
18 Dec 2017, 12:33 UTC
Size
1.03 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
2.52993208 BTC
Reward
15.02993208 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
245 sat/vBmost paid 207 to 315 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 43 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 98% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 499,956, 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 499,958 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000041f82abe621f68202bf12dbdd332077e2b2f54e40c13e
Previous hash
00000000000000000026d48abfeffa1359e5d8927a21c228b76ec2c5a93a6eee
Merkle root
b5138bb8689c586a14bd53e2081b1ad2a5444a6671e49a796fd1f697834b9554
Version
0x20000000
Bits
1800b0ed
Nonce
1,637,485,672
Timestamp
1513600390
Median time
18 Dec 2017, 12:11 UTC
Weight
3,993,098 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cd5e81f054dcdf0bff1874

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: 7Zg/BTC.COM/

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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