About block 9,506
Bitcoin block 9,506 was mined by Unknown on April 2, 2009 at 12:38 AM UTC, 6 min 22 s after block 9,505. That is faster than the 10-minute average the network aims for: blocks come in bursts because finding one is pure chance.
It confirmed 1 transactions in 0.00 MB (0.0% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 0.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0000 BTC. With the 50.000 BTC subsidy of halving era 1, Unknown earned 50.0000 BTC for this block.
Block 9,506 is number 1,443 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 4; 573 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 10,079. The next halving is at block 210,000, 200,494 blocks after this one.
Its hash starts with 8 zeros: that is the proof of work, a number below the target that the whole network’s hashrate had to search for. Unknown found 3 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 965,936 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.