About block 950,972
Bitcoin block 950,972 was mined by F2Pool on May 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM UTC, 17 min 6 s after block 950,971. 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 3,471 transactions in 1.86 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, up from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0331 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1581 BTC for this block.
Block 950,972 is number 1,437 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 471; 579 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 951,551. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 99,028 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. F2Pool found 162 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 24,575 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.