About block 968,202
Bitcoin block 968,202 was mined by F2Pool on September 23, 2026 at 12:12 AM UTC, 40 min 35 s after block 968,201. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,868 transactions in 1.63 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 4.00 sat/vB, up from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0486 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1736 BTC for this block.
Block 968,202 is number 523 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,493 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,798 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 165 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,791 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.