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Block 501,542

Found by BTC.com 3 minutes after the block before it. Its 2,284 transactions paid 4.34 BTC in fees, 26% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 2,284 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
29 Dec 2017, 09:14 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
4.33645263 BTC
Reward
16.83645263 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
398 sat/vBmost paid 301 to 582 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 10% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 501,541, 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 501,543 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000000000000087aa43b82d3d261fb3062a724a842c72d30ddb315887c5
Previous hash
0000000000000000005d899691d2e517fad47647cc38bf970103c82c990e083a
Merkle root
532b9781178d68756339ea110ef672d338f5120fbaf639f31d962917754f17e3
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
2,542,998,596
Timestamp
1514538894
Median time
29 Dec 2017, 08:17 UTC
Weight
3,992,831 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d7e827d424c829578c9aa5

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

Paid to 34qkc2iac6RsyxZVfyE2S5U5WcRsbg2dpK

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