About block 969,579
Bitcoin block 969,579 was mined by F2Pool on October 2, 2026 at 11:12 AM UTC, 28 min 17 s after block 969,578. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,180 transactions in 1.58 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0394 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1644 BTC for this block.
Block 969,579 is number 1,900 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 480; 116 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 969,695. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,421 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 2,013 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.