About block 969,232
Bitcoin block 969,232 was mined by F2Pool on September 30, 2026 at 12:37 AM UTC, 17 min 3 s after block 969,231. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,931 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0267 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1517 BTC for this block.
Block 969,232 is number 1,553 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 463 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,768 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 166 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,365 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.