About block 969,841
Bitcoin block 969,841 was mined by F2Pool on October 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM UTC, 12 min 37 s after block 969,840. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,761 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 0.0163 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1413 BTC for this block.
Block 969,841 is number 146 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 1,870 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,159 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 1,756 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.