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Block 500,997

Found by BTC.com 9 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,547 transactions paid 6.12 BTC in fees, 33% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,547 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
25 Dec 2017, 16:51 UTC
Size
1.05 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.12339599 BTC
Reward
18.62339599 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
618 sat/vBmost paid 201 to 1,012 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 49% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,996, 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 500,998 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000004cb70fa05e1ec7039298ad9dbf3bf5a3947dcbe1f8c3fc
Previous hash
0000000000000000003f31e1aa2403bd91cc2cb0339f5fc18cc41c2678cbea56
Merkle root
b3075cc2c9cfeb22628464caa3cc45544ad0568ce0f7f70add49a790ee87d01a
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
2,555,884,716
Timestamp
1514220692
Median time
25 Dec 2017, 15:59 UTC
Weight
3,992,677 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d447b0ca0c698ee2dd97b2

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: ,AZc/BTC.COM/

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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Bitcoin Block 500,997, Mined 25 Dec 2017 | Explore21