About block 972,135
Bitcoin block 972,135 was mined by F2Pool on October 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM UTC, 40 min 6 s after block 972,134. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent lottery ticket.
It confirmed 3,756 transactions in 1.55 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 3.25 sat/vB, up from 0.64 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0481 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1731 BTC for this block.
Block 972,135 is number 424 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 482; 1,592 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 973,727. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 77,865 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 169 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 15 confirmations, so it is settled beyond any practical doubt.