About block 971,139
Bitcoin block 971,139 was mined by F2Pool on October 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTC, 17 min 4 s after block 971,138. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,347 transactions in 1.72 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0287 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1537 BTC for this block.
Block 971,139 is number 1,444 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 572 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,861 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 453 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.