About block 950,231
Bitcoin block 950,231 was mined by SpiderPool on May 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM UTC, 13 min 6 s after block 950,230. 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 3,791 transactions in 1.82 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, down from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0157 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1407 BTC for this block.
Block 950,231 is number 696 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 471; 1,320 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 951,551. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 99,769 blocks after this one.
Its hash starts with 20 zeros: that is the proof of work, a number below the target that the whole network’s hashrate had to search for. SpiderPool found 75 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 25,397 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.