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Block 500,598

Found by BTC.com 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,060 transactions paid 7.38 BTC in fees, 37% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,060 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
22 Dec 2017, 21:48 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
7.38439458 BTC
Reward
19.88439458 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
663 sat/vBmost paid 420 to 1,044 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 36 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 97% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,597, 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 500,599 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000042db96df6cfcb65e666417f9e2f233eda52f15e951966
Previous hash
0000000000000000008d1d80475082d4b8c4cf2be6c29a5164ee984000542ecb
Merkle root
547b82e7645aa590988cde4bf43e3e2ca7fe5d4cc86bffc946514895e308f0c8
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
513,933,801
Timestamp
1513979293
Median time
22 Dec 2017, 21:10 UTC
Weight
3,992,977 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d19ff3b58161d5000d9c95

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: }=Zg/BTC.COM/

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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