On Friday, August 25, a day after the activation of the Segregated Witness protocol in the bitcoin network, the BitFury mining pool found the first block larger than 1 MB. Simultaneously, with this Chinese Antpool, despite the overload of the membrane, continues to periodically extract empty blocks.
The historical block larger than 1MB was found at 481947 and was found at 07:10 UTC. In total, it contained 2,164 transactions totaling more than $ 9 million at the current exchange rate, and its size was 32 KB more than the usual limit of 1 MB - 1032.119 KB.
Wow 😳