About block 973,574
Bitcoin block 973,574 was mined by SpiderPool on October 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM UTC, 9 min 12 s after block 973,573. That is faster than the 10-minute average the network aims for: blocks come in bursts because finding one is pure chance.
It confirmed 2,440 transactions in 1.76 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 1.01 sat/vB, down from 1.01 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0170 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1420 BTC for this block.
Block 973,574 is number 1,863 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 482; 153 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 973,727. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 76,426 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. SpiderPool found 46 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 3 confirmations.