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Block 500,466

Found by BTC.com 4 seconds after the block before it. Its 1,809 transactions paid 7.97 BTC in fees, 39% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,809 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
22 Dec 2017, 00:59 UTC
Size
1.03 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
7.97273179 BTC
Reward
20.47273179 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
786 sat/vBmost paid 747 to 896 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 56% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,465, 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 500,467 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000042cac7388ba3600714a3c5e21d18d47a4bf6fd61ec095e
Previous hash
00000000000000000057f75d38ad90f8bab18dfc0e1fe5711111527237221741
Merkle root
5343ae0e370298e6d388f23be9ed46bce763488dcade2f06d451f0439516904b
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
362,406,112
Timestamp
1513904383
Median time
22 Dec 2017, 00:16 UTC
Weight
3,992,767 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d0bf1378d07fff71a628c9

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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Bitcoin Block 500,466, Mined 22 Dec 2017 | Explore21