About block 968,517
Bitcoin block 968,517 was mined by SpiderPool on September 25, 2026 at 7:12 AM UTC, 36 min 53 s after block 968,516. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,121 transactions in 1.44 MB (99.8% 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 0.0418 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1668 BTC for this block.
Block 968,517 is number 838 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,178 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,483 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. SpiderPool found 48 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,343 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.