About block 970,981
Bitcoin block 970,981 was mined by F2Pool on October 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM UTC, 35 min 38 s after block 970,980. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,295 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.00 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0443 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1693 BTC for this block.
Block 970,981 is number 1,286 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 730 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 79,019 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 166 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 616 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.