block#500,000
Mined
12/18/2017, 6:35:25 PM
Reward
12.5 BTC
Fees
3.39 BTC
Difficulty
1,873,105,475,221.61
Block hash
00000000000000000024fb37364cbf81fd49cc2d51c09c75c35433c3a1945d04
00000000000000000024…9c75c35433c3a1945d04
Block 500,000 was mined during the peak of the 2017 bull market with over 3 BTC in transaction fees alone. Users paid record fees to get transactions confirmed — a painful lesson that drove development of Lightning and SegWit adoption.