About block 969,556
Bitcoin block 969,556 was mined by F2Pool on October 2, 2026 at 7:38 AM UTC, 18 min 36 s after block 969,555. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,805 transactions in 1.69 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0237 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1487 BTC for this block.
Block 969,556 is number 1,877 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 139 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,444 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 167 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2,036 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.