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Block 500,842

Found by BTC.com 3 minutes after the block before it. Its 1,807 transactions paid 6.88 BTC in fees, 35% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 10 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,807 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
24 Dec 2017, 14:47 UTC
Size
1.19 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.87797507 BTC
Reward
19.37797507 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
648 sat/vBmost paid 446 to 1,004 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 16% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,841, 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 500,843 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000007e5b8369be03692eb66bd6e00a34d2fea0ae3831eb95ab
Previous hash
000000000000000000315d466fdf3b998863d292b47cb969e05fa253ba9e373a
Merkle root
39c3e553536725ff76bd09842477c17119faaab1441c39a58d1c4da62cda676a
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
281,424,570
Timestamp
1514126840
Median time
24 Dec 2017, 13:43 UTC
Weight
3,992,878 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d33fa1b915ec02aa31b0b1

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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