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Block 8

Found by an unknown miner 6 minutes after the block before it. It holds only the coinbase transaction: 50 BTC of new coins and no fees.

, 17 years 10 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
9 Jan 2009, 03:45 UTC
Size
215 B0.0% full by weight
Fees
0 BTC
Reward
50 BTCnew coins plus fees
Pool
Unknownthe coinbase names no pool we know

Luck. Its hash was 4.0 times lower than it needed to be: luckier than 75% of blocks.

The chain

It carries the hash of block 7, 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 9 carries this one's hash in turn.

Transactions

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

Technical details

Hash
00000000408c48f847aa786c2268fc3e6ec2af68e8468a34a28c61b7f1de0dc6
Previous hash
0000000071966c2b1d065fd446b1e485b2c9d9594acd2007ccbd5441cfc89444
Merkle root
a6f7f1c0dad0f2eb6b13c4f33de664b1b0e9f22efad5994a6d5b6086d85e85e3
Version
0x00000001
Bits
1d00ffff
Nonce
1,716,931,356
Timestamp
1231472743
Median time
9 Jan 2009, 03:16 UTC
Weight
860 WU
Chainwork
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000900090009

What the miner wrote in the block's first transaction: (nothing readable)

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