About block 968,346
Bitcoin block 968,346 was mined by F2Pool on September 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM UTC, 27 min 37 s after block 968,345. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,871 transactions in 1.52 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0346 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1596 BTC for this block.
Block 968,346 is number 667 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,349 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,654 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 180 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,584 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.