About block 968,590
Bitcoin block 968,590 was mined by ViaBTC on September 25, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC, 51 min 35 s after block 968,589. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,652 transactions in 1.54 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 6.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0778 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, ViaBTC earned 3.2028 BTC for this block.
Block 968,590 is number 911 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 1,105 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,410 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. ViaBTC found 98 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,236 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.