About block 974,259
Bitcoin block 974,259 was mined by SpiderPool on November 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC, 1 min 56 s after block 974,258. That is faster than the 10-minute average the network aims for: blocks come in bursts because finding one is pure chance.
It confirmed 831 transactions in 3.70 MB (99.8% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 0.13 sat/vB, down from 1.01 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0023 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, SpiderPool earned 3.1273 BTC for this block.
Block 974,259 is number 532 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 483; 1,484 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 975,743. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 75,741 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. SpiderPool found 47 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 5 confirmations.