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Block 500,242

Found by BTC.com 17 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,735 transactions paid 6.95 BTC in fees, 36% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,735 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 08:58 UTC
Size
1.06 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.94778383 BTC
Reward
19.44778383 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
644 sat/vBmost paid 631 to 874 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 1% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,241, 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 500,243 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000009564e9a0b0d3e4e9ab3ac5e3b5acdb7fa34551c1766450
Previous hash
00000000000000000018deedff3cf4be7d2347db9c02cbc78a8bf5344a1e7d6c
Merkle root
5b034107d41a1a56556e8a3d8137c4dfcb8a553132d177285e10d9694cae494e
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
1,306,468,913
Timestamp
1513760287
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 08:17 UTC
Weight
3,992,680 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cf4177eb092f4f3a2ce829

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: &:Zb/BTC.COM/f

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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