About block 971,613
Bitcoin block 971,613 was mined by F2Pool on October 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM UTC, 23 min 22 s after block 971,612. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 4,359 transactions in 1.57 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.02 sat/vB, and all fees added up to 0.0414 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1664 BTC for this block.
Block 971,613 is number 1,918 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 98 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,387 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 163 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 8 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.