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Block 500,042

Found by ViaBTC 1 minute after the block before it. Its 1,258 transactions paid 1.93 BTC in fees, 13% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,258 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
18 Dec 2017, 23:11 UTC
Size
1.17 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
1.92610387 BTC
Reward
14.42610387 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
164 sat/vBmost paid 160 to 381 sat/vB
Pool
ViaBTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 19% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,041, 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 500,043 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000079e8ff823d2d8b0ed434b5efe8217451df0f78f7274104
Previous hash
000000000000000000324b7da62109614d39489ba5debebde4023fc485a0f421
Merkle root
17871766583309151733182944f6dad767b9f93b93f886f03b9c5585efde2e98
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
3,892,288,028
Timestamp
1513638677
Median time
18 Dec 2017, 22:50 UTC
Weight
3,993,010 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cdecbf5104f068bf80a551

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /ViaBTC/Mined by tlwang/

Paid to 18cBEMRxXHqzWWCxZNtU91F5sbUNKhL5PX

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