About block 969,931
Bitcoin block 969,931 was mined by F2Pool on October 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM UTC, 16 min 41 s after block 969,930. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 5,225 transactions in 1.55 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0139 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1389 BTC for this block.
Block 969,931 is number 236 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 1,780 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 80,069 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 1,666 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.