About block 968,398
Bitcoin block 968,398 was mined by F2Pool on September 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM UTC, 21 min 50 s after block 968,397. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,936 transactions in 1.62 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 4.00 sat/vB, up from 3.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0652 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1902 BTC for this block.
Block 968,398 is number 719 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,297 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,602 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 3,514 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.