About block 972,108
Bitcoin block 972,108 was mined by AntPool on October 19, 2026 at 5:28 AM UTC, 20 min 18 s after block 972,107. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,337 transactions in 1.73 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.01 sat/vB, down from 3.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0271 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, AntPool earned 3.1521 BTC for this block.
Block 972,108 is number 397 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 482; 1,619 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 973,727. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 77,892 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. AntPool found 222 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 5 confirmations.