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Block 500,437

Found by BTC.com 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 3,120 transactions paid 9.46 BTC in fees, 43% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 3,120 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
21 Dec 2017, 19:21 UTC
Size
1.04 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
9.46326152 BTC
Reward
21.96326152 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
911 sat/vBmost paid 865 to 1,186 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 8% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,436, 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 500,438 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000008a6e00ab0efdb784d17093ba8a7fc0a6df158d1e486e0d
Previous hash
0000000000000000000a188ce2065a455ec12b3d57dcf487b90bbe836b05654d
Merkle root
58de257aa7f31ade2980cf339433c01c4ed979d5c885db48da9808ccffbc69df
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
1,454,266,953
Timestamp
1513884098
Median time
21 Dec 2017, 18:21 UTC
Weight
3,992,786 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d08dabe79a1fd6582e7622

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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