etherscan.io - View Old Blocks

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∟etherscan.io - View Old Blocks

This section describes how to view an old Ethereum transaction block on etherscan.io.

As of 2021, Ethereum blockchain contains more than 13,789,278 transaction blocks. Let's try to search and view block # 5,000,000 on etherscan.io.

Go to 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)