Block 501,588
Found by BTC.com 15 seconds after the block before it. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 12.5 BTC of new coins and no fees.
, 8 years 9 months ago
What's inside
Each square is one of its 1 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.
Facts
- Found
- 29 Dec 2017, 15:15 UTC
- Confirmations
- 471,222
- Size
- 239 B0.0% full by weight
- Fees
- 0 BTC
- Reward
- 12.5 BTCnew coins plus fees
- Pool
- BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof
- Difficulty
- 1.87 T
Luck. Its hash only just made it under the target: luckier than 8% of blocks.
The chain
It carries the hash of block 501,587, 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 501,589 carries this one's hash in turn.
Transactions
In block order, the miner's reward first. 25 to a page.
Technical details
- Hash
- 00000000000000000089c6ddea762345d773a888d8189c64abd4ee2c865e3858
- Previous hash
- 00000000000000000088b0053d04097cea2830bc8b093a87d1ab8acb756973e0
- Merkle root
- 4a87dd4b46333a073bebd238deb67fb3cd691be47df919210060ebfa0ed60815
- Version
- 0x20000000
- Bits
- 18009645
- Nonce
- 384,750,040
- Timestamp
- 1514560547
- Median time
- 29 Dec 2017, 14:38 UTC
- Weight
- 956 WU
- Chainwork
- 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d836857cafff96ac15810f
What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: #\FZc/BTC.COM/%
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