About block 969,547
Bitcoin block 969,547 was mined by F2Pool on October 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM UTC, 23 min 8 s after block 969,546. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,426 transactions in 1.60 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0266 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1516 BTC for this block.
Block 969,547 is number 1,868 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 148 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,453 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. F2Pool found 167 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,045 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.