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Block 500,296

Found by BTC.com 24 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,968 transactions paid 8.27 BTC in fees, 40% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,968 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 17:56 UTC
Size
1.07 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
8.27129413 BTC
Reward
20.77129413 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
766 sat/vBmost paid 747 to 968 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 22% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,295, 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 500,297 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000074b40ca57e9e89450b754b190944c1f5373879731fa5b2
Previous hash
00000000000000000070e679355e1d2f0af7a4c0b3d9d367563b20f1b8d737fe
Merkle root
12dfc9c4cee8057af735a4b496d141763db34d0aba09abb334b3c28500d035dd
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
920,732,041
Timestamp
1513792575
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 16:59 UTC
Weight
3,992,933 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cf9d768f80175522fa232b

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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