About block 968,547
Bitcoin block 968,547 was mined by F2Pool on September 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM UTC, 19 min 18 s after block 968,546. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,254 transactions in 1.62 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.00 sat/vB, up from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0478 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1728 BTC for this block.
Block 968,547 is number 868 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,148 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,453 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 171 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,288 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.