About block 971,632
Bitcoin block 971,632 was mined by F2Pool on October 15, 2026 at 11:24 PM UTC, 4 min 38 s after block 971,631. That is faster than the 10-minute average the network aims for: blocks come in bursts because finding one is pure chance.
It confirmed 4,491 transactions in 1.70 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.21 sat/vB, down from 2.20 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0168 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1418 BTC for this block.
Block 971,632 is number 1,937 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 79 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,368 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 5 confirmations.