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Block 500,297

Found by BTC.com 3 minutes after the block before it. Its 3,482 transactions paid 7.58 BTC in fees, 38% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 3,482 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 17:59 UTC
Size
1.02 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
7.58390227 BTC
Reward
20.08390227 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
746 sat/vBmost paid 744 to 747 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 26% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,296, 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 500,298 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000006ed088b219ff8bbbaae4882daaaf6b22e1a31fe2f399fe
Previous hash
00000000000000000074b40ca57e9e89450b754b190944c1f5373879731fa5b2
Merkle root
ca1c4716a6c83eb54d4a4a7a5adaeba15e363b20feaf618de9aaea52909fb947
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
1,393,678,443
Timestamp
1513792762
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 17:04 UTC
Weight
3,992,811 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cf9f2aaefd8d683582adbe

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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