Ethereum Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
etherscan.io - View Old Blocks
This section describes how to view an old Ethereum transaction block on etherscan.io.
As of 2024, Ethereum blockchain contains more than 19,985,439 transaction blocks. Let's try to search and view block # 5,000,000 on etherscan.io.
Go to Ethereum Block Explorer at https://etherscan.io/. And search for "5000000" in the search box. You should see the content of block # 5000000 displayed:
Height: 5000000 Time: x days 12 hrs ago (Jan-30-2018 01:41:33 PM +UTC) Transactions: 109 transactions and 10 contract internal transactions Hash: 0x7d5a4369273c723454ac137f48a4f142b097aa2779464e6505f1b1c5e37b5382 Parent Hash: 0xcae4df80f5862e4321690857eded0d8a40136dafb8155453920bade5bd0c46c0 Sha3Uncles: 0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347 Mined By: 0xb2930b35844a230f00e51431acae96fe543a0347 (miningpoolhub_1) in 5 secs Difficulty: 2,546,613,975,853,490 Total Difficulty: 2,285,199,027,754,071,740,498 Size: 24017 bytes Gas Used: 7,994,053 (99.93%) Gas Limit: 8,000,029 Nonce: 0x884617a20003ba3f25 Block Reward: 3.081863496448905635 Ether (3 + 0.081863496448905635) Uncles Reward: 0 Extra Data: t12 (Hex:0x743132)
Below is the block # 5000000 in Ethereum blockchain displayed on etherscan.io:
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