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Block 500,497

Found by Bixin 1 minute after the block before it. Its 1,852 transactions paid 7.44 BTC in fees, 37% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,852 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
22 Dec 2017, 05:22 UTC
Size
1.04 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
7.43990319 BTC
Reward
19.93990319 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
665 sat/vBmost paid 625 to 1,031 sat/vB
Pool
Bixinfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.2 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 54% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,496, 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 500,498 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000004478858db5d4de12f0c6bbd5ff3bdd9574b8dec574dbcc
Previous hash
000000000000000000770f5ba0a6232881c82a0377b79fdfaea94e9b338af224
Merkle root
3a607341e6f0d3dec87ef6875b087bc5628073ba9c7787bdf14932304c0b87f6
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
203,636,870
Timestamp
1513920151
Median time
22 Dec 2017, 05:09 UTC
Weight
3,993,190 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d0f3e34901cc4eb02ef096

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)

Paid to 13hQVEstgo4iPQZv9C7VELnLWF7UWtF4Q3

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