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Block 500,642

Found by BitFury 7 minutes after the block before it. Its 1,923 transactions paid 6.28 BTC in fees, 33% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,923 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
23 Dec 2017, 05:59 UTC
Size
1.04 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.28173196 BTC
Reward
18.78173196 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
468 sat/vBmost paid 400 to 1,005 sat/vB
Pool
BitFuryfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.0 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 50% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,641, 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 500,643 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000004b0551ce8946ad7ef6a81253f819eded0f6eef8d9187a1
Previous hash
00000000000000000071af2b6b3a5fd4f858b3f4b497ceed8ac851fd8ca9000f
Merkle root
52cd155a75af677d730bf8f0e12f6255ad47ad48252cfd07cfffc4d9af0bb756
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
1,259,911,466
Timestamp
1514008747
Median time
23 Dec 2017, 04:44 UTC
Weight
3,993,026 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d1eae91f11ad1c2f856dd9

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: /Bitfury/

Paid to 1GbVUSW5WJmRCpaCJ4hanUny77oDaWW4to

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