About block 968,721
Bitcoin block 968,721 was mined by AntPool on September 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC, 10 min 9 s after block 968,720. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 5,124 transactions in 1.62 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0187 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, AntPool earned 3.1437 BTC for this block.
Block 968,721 is number 1,042 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 974 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,279 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. AntPool found 229 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3,052 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.