About block 972,105
Bitcoin block 972,105 was mined by AntPool on October 19, 2026 at 4:07 AM UTC, 26 min 33 s after block 972,104. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 2,754 transactions in 1.65 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.00 sat/vB, up from 0.14 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0248 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, AntPool earned 3.1498 BTC for this block.
Block 972,105 is number 394 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 482; 1,622 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 973,727. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 77,895 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 222 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 4 confirmations.