About block 968,857
Bitcoin block 968,857 was mined by SECPOOL on September 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM UTC, 16 min 52 s after block 968,856. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,834 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0338 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SECPOOL earned 3.1588 BTC for this block.
Block 968,857 is number 1,178 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 838 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,143 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. SECPOOL found 36 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,853 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.