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Block 500,998

Found by BWPool 16 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,266 transactions paid 6.79 BTC in fees, 35% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,266 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
25 Dec 2017, 17:07 UTC
Size
998 kB99.8% full by weight
Fees
6.79449835 BTC
Reward
19.29449835 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
673 sat/vBmost paid 196 to 1,012 sat/vB
Pool
BWPoolfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash made it under the target with an everyday margin: luckier than 31% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 500,997, 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 500,999 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
000000000000000000679bce95a40b60d16f1ae38d07766298a7b50f7d416938
Previous hash
0000000000000000004cb70fa05e1ec7039298ad9dbf3bf5a3947dcbe1f8c3fc
Merkle root
3ee294bc66375df7d94c0ad3a64710919d017d89c610faf9e9b80665d2e4d0fb
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
2,483,053,000
Timestamp
1514221623
Median time
25 Dec 2017, 16:12 UTC
Weight
3,992,512 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d44964e989dfa1f5662245

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: 70AZ (Mined by BW.COM) /BW Pool/NYA/

Paid to 1BQLNJtMDKmMZ4PyqVFfRuBNvoGhjigBKF

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