About block 968,341
Bitcoin block 968,341 was mined by F2Pool on September 24, 2026 at 2:41 AM UTC, 23 min 33 s after block 968,340. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,013 transactions in 1.53 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0264 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1514 BTC for this block.
Block 968,341 is number 662 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,354 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,659 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. F2Pool found 179 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,591 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.