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Block 501,837

Found by BTC.com 5 minutes after the block before it. Its 1,540 transactions paid 2.56 BTC in fees, 17% of the miner's reward.

, 8 years 9 months ago

What's inside

Each square is one of its 1,540 transactions, as big as the space it took. The miner packs the best payers first, from the top left.

Facts

Found
31 Dec 2017, 04:39 UTC
Size
1.08 MB99.8% full by weight
Fees
2.55964794 BTC
Reward
15.05964794 BTCnew coins plus fees
Median fee rate
91 sat/vBmost paid 78 to 537 sat/vB
Pool
BTC.comfrom the coinbase: a claim, not proof

Luck. Its hash was 2.4 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 57% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 501,836, 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 501,838 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
0000000000000000003fea17a4abc487beff89e451263e9d3b150bd03808f9d0
Previous hash
00000000000000000022e25a98a3c3974d35c7ff8e94bfcdafab4a6b9a67cff9
Merkle root
34e016c7d1cd142745435bbcea73da72b14d01cfa5741fd2833a70a5e018d4c7
Version
0x20000000
Bits
18009645
Nonce
148,127,036
Timestamp
1514695177
Median time
31 Dec 2017, 04:20 UTC
Weight
3,993,084 WU
Chainwork
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d9deb81db7d823b2e44a0a

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

Paid to 3E41eGyD4FKSwzvq8dZ3Zy2enXSo91qE6B

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