About block 968,310
Bitcoin block 968,310 was mined by F2Pool on September 23, 2026 at 7:12 PM UTC, 13 min 38 s after block 968,309. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,070 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0281 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1531 BTC for this block.
Block 968,310 is number 631 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,385 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,690 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 178 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,634 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.