About block 971,686
Bitcoin block 971,686 was mined by AntPool on October 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM UTC, 15 min 23 s after block 971,685. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,688 transactions in 1.66 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.01 sat/vB, up from 1.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0279 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, AntPool earned 3.1529 BTC for this block.
Block 971,686 is number 1,991 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 481; 25 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 971,711. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,314 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. AntPool found 217 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 2 confirmations.