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Reading the list of Bitcoin blocks

A Bitcoin block is found by a miner or mining pool, on average every 10 minutes. It holds up to 4,000,000 weight units of transactions, the first of which is the coinbase that pays the block subsidy and the fees to the miner. Fees are quoted in satoshis per virtual byte. Each block commits to the one before through its hash.

The newest block is at the top and the list moves back in time as you page down. The age column counts from now, the transaction count says how busy the block was, and the fee columns show what its senders paid. Open any row for the transactions inside it. Every block refers to the one before it by its hash, which is how the list forms a single chain, and the numbers rise by one with each new entry unless one was skipped or the backend keeps only a sample of a very fast chain.

The data is read live from public Bitcoin nodes and indexers. Very recent blocks can still be replaced on a chain that has not finalized them yet, so use an older row when you need something that will not change. The next page button goes further back in time, and the search box in the header finds any block by its number or hash.