About block 969,925
Bitcoin block 969,925 was mined by SpiderPool on October 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM UTC, 12 min 52 s after block 969,924. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,489 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.8% 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 0.0247 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1497 BTC for this block.
Block 969,925 is number 230 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 1,786 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,075 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. SpiderPool found 51 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 1,672 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.