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Block 500,258

Found by BTC.com 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,336 transactions paid 5.07 BTC in fees, 29% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,336 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 10:54 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
5.06816854 BTC
Reward
17.56816854 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
428 sat/vBmost paid 365 to 726 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 17% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,257, 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 500,259 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000007d622ba3de14a991b2ebdb6c8813857c0839462e4f57df
Previous hash
0000000000000000004530f1e6eb83e4f4bcb077238bf4e2bde1f0cf07e2f239
Merkle root
ff67cc42fa795136d04620ebd750f98f819a8dc2f56559fbdd7ec5c6bbae92a0
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
3,614,870,569
Timestamp
1513767268
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 10:24 UTC
Weight
3,992,603 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cf5cb9e2e0908062b59159

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: QA:Zc/BTC.COM/*

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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