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Block 500,978

Found by BTC.com 12 minutes after the block before it. Its 1,452 transactions paid 5.73 BTC in fees, 31% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,452 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
25 Dec 2017, 12:29 UTC
Size
1.06 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
5.72942221 BTC
Reward
18.22942221 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
482 sat/vBmost paid 175 to 1,061 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 65 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 98% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,977, 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 500,979 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000024b5b7ca934ab9de3cfc6a6d8842f109043d436399dbf
Previous hash
0000000000000000008994cf204f9baf6abe75c0977bf5c5f1319671758a7299
Merkle root
821321d045474d6c2f5c1e314f36a1c63fceb96779f8ee3343421aaa24a2ba8b
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
383,329,876
Timestamp
1514204990
Median time
25 Dec 2017, 12:00 UTC
Weight
3,993,133 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d4275273bca62482bb4ec9

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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