About block 968,021
Bitcoin block 968,021 was mined by SpiderPool on September 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM UTC, 12 min 5 s after block 968,020. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,830 transactions in 1.59 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 0.0235 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1485 BTC for this block.
Block 968,021 is number 342 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,674 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,979 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. SpiderPool found 57 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 4,076 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.