About block 968,401
Bitcoin block 968,401 was mined by AntPool on September 24, 2026 at 2:34 PM UTC, 13 min 31 s after block 968,400. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,429 transactions in 1.54 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.00 sat/vB, up from 3.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0572 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, AntPool earned 3.1822 BTC for this block.
Block 968,401 is number 722 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,294 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,599 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. AntPool found 225 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,511 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.