About block 971,912
Bitcoin block 971,912 was mined by F2Pool on October 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC, 36 min 39 s after block 971,911. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,890 transactions in 1.61 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.61 sat/vB, up from 1.02 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0424 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1674 BTC for this block.
Block 971,912 is number 201 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 482; 1,815 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 973,727. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 78,088 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 180 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 12 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.