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Block 500,420

Found by BTC.com 8 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,999 transactions paid 8.40 BTC in fees, 40% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,999 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
21 Dec 2017, 16:31 UTC
Size
1.03 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
8.40191742 BTC
Reward
20.90191742 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
909 sat/vBmost paid 270 to 1,107 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 45% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,419, 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 500,421 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000535cb8ba969f1ddc237cd5d4676e90322dd7a33788f9dc
Previous hash
0000000000000000001670f7c7be60653d5c73bd5b731d5c3859a8c6ab0841eb
Merkle root
3fc100dee0c818c50cdeb8a219b4e4383bd2fefb8efd22ea24ca3140388b4672
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
907,408,140
Timestamp
1513873874
Median time
21 Dec 2017, 15:44 UTC
Weight
3,992,916 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d070b5d04548921d1d425f

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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