About block 969,000
Bitcoin block 969,000 was mined by F2Pool on September 28, 2026 at 1:07 PM UTC, 12 min 42 s after block 968,999. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,573 transactions in 1.65 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, down from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0247 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1497 BTC for this block.
Block 969,000 is number 1,321 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 695 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 81,000 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. F2Pool found 165 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,654 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.