#498,222

First Lightning Network payment on mainnet

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Mined

1/19/2018, 7:34:42 PM

Reward

12.5 BTC

Fees

0.08 BTC

Difficulty

2,193,845,467,588.59

Block hash

0000000000000000002bdfb41ddd5519bbfcea52d2c37c3990ccc3b91d4e673

0000000000000000002b…37c3990ccc3b91d4e673

Block 498,222 contains the on-chain settlement backing the first documented Lightning Network purchase on Bitcoin mainnet. Laszlo Hanyecz paid 0.00649 BTC for a YubiKey router via a payment routed through ACINQ's node — eight years after he spent 10,000 BTC on pizza, he helped prove Bitcoin could scale through Layer 2.

Key People

Joseph Poon Thaddeus Dryja Eric Lombrozo Pieter Wuille Laszlo Hanyecz

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