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Block 500,688

Found by BTC.com 9 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,100 transactions paid 6.59 BTC in fees, 35% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,100 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
23 Dec 2017, 12:36 UTC
Size
1.12 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.58907872 BTC
Reward
19.08907872 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
636 sat/vBmost paid 279 to 1,010 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 4.1 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 76% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,687, 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 500,689 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000024bbf4ac629a7d13e9c1ece6489220a81f448981440035
Previous hash
0000000000000000005b0639355f32c882e7e582c2e7a696c6f12b1b04c6dfa4
Merkle root
18beed090e8aac979effb46c221018102e2348cc0d047ddf19196197f213ef2b
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
15,522,086
Timestamp
1514032561
Median time
23 Dec 2017, 12:00 UTC
Weight
3,993,132 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d23946c79ce489840e5443

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: M>Zb/BTC.COM/f

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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