About block 971,408
Bitcoin block 971,408 was mined by F2Pool on October 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM UTC, 37 min 43 s after block 971,407. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,353 transactions in 1.59 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.00 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0486 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1736 BTC for this block.
Block 971,408 is number 1,713 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 303 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,592 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 189 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.