About block 917,559
Bitcoin block 917,559 was mined by F2Pool on October 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC, 10 min 53 s after block 917,558. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent draw with the same tiny chance.
It confirmed 3,488 transactions in 1.59 MB (100.0% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 5.00 sat/vB, down from 8.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0631 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1881 BTC for this block.
Block 917,559 is number 280 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 455; 1,736 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 919,295. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 132,441 blocks after this one.
Its hash starts with 19 zeros: that is the proof of work, a number below the target that the whole network’s hashrate had to search for. F2Pool found 173 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 56,021 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.