About block 968,950
Bitcoin block 968,950 was mined by SECPOOL on September 28, 2026 at 5:41 AM UTC, 15 min 39 s after block 968,949. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,669 transactions in 1.68 MB (99.8% 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, SECPOOL earned 3.1437 BTC for this block.
Block 968,950 is number 1,271 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 745 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,050 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 35 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,730 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.