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Block 500,238

Found by ViaBTC 6 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,544 transactions paid 5.36 BTC in fees, 30% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,544 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 08:22 UTC
Size
1.04 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
5.36137631 BTC
Reward
17.86137631 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
641 sat/vBmost paid 1.0 to 715 sat/vB
Pool
ViaBTCfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 22 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 95% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,237, 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 500,239 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000006dd1f8e925162062952798d47237efaef8a2c7e846859
Previous hash
000000000000000000222507cf11b62c40bda4ea9ed1c8edd5c7d2d7bdde6e15
Merkle root
441d2d874b38ebe55962e2cf56fa85271e81725ecfe596170864df2bf1cafcb2
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
665,751,678
Timestamp
1513758161
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 07:46 UTC
Weight
3,993,250 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cf3aa76d135702f00abddd

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

Paid to 18cBEMRxXHqzWWCxZNtU91F5sbUNKhL5PX

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