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Block 500,301

Found by Braiins Pool 2 minutes after the block before it. Its 3,500 transactions paid 7.43 BTC in fees, 37% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 3,500 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
20 Dec 2017, 18:34 UTC
Size
1.12 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
7.42827643 BTC
Reward
19.92827643 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
744 sat/vBmost paid 720 to 745 sat/vB
Pool
Braiins Poolfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 17 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 94% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,300, 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 500,302 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000008b624b2c897976dc47aea7c648a1e44512a1b69e4798f
Previous hash
000000000000000000345b3126dd7d55db8809e817346478c2d810118f8725ee
Merkle root
4df628079db5079bf8df1a7e8dd73e258cc448ef880737724aa12946001a7d4d
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
2,284,363,243
Timestamp
1513794851
Median time
20 Dec 2017, 17:56 UTC
Weight
3,992,938 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000cfa5fb2cf365b47fa4d80a

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /slush/

Paid to 1CK6KHY6MHgYvmRQ4PAafKYDrg1ejbH1cE

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