About block 968,556
Bitcoin block 968,556 was mined by SpiderPool on September 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM UTC, 25 min 1 s after block 968,555. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,852 transactions in 1.56 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 4.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.1033 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.2283 BTC for this block.
Block 968,556 is number 877 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,139 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,444 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 45 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,278 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.