About block 969,896
Bitcoin block 969,896 was mined by F2Pool on October 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM UTC, 14 min 32 s after block 969,895. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,700 transactions in 1.55 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0194 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1444 BTC for this block.
Block 969,896 is number 201 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 1,815 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,104 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 1,696 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.