About block 968,539
Bitcoin block 968,539 was mined by F2Pool on September 25, 2026 at 10:18 AM UTC, 13 min 43 s after block 968,538. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,131 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 0.0218 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1468 BTC for this block.
Block 968,539 is number 860 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,156 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,461 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 173 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,302 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.