About block 974,517
Bitcoin block 974,517 was mined by F2Pool on November 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM UTC, 23 min 26 s after block 974,516. That is slower than the 10-minute target; long gaps are normal, since every hash attempt is an independent draw with the same tiny chance.
It confirmed 3,442 transactions in 1.55 MB (99.9% of the 4 million weight-unit limit). The median transaction paid 2.11 sat/vB, up from 2.00 sat/vB in the block before, and all fees added up to 0.0360 BTC. With the 3.125 BTC subsidy of halving era 5, F2Pool earned 3.1610 BTC for this block.
Block 974,517 is number 790 of 2,016 in difficulty epoch 483; 1,226 blocks remain until the next difficulty adjustment at block 975,743. The next halving is at block 1,050,000, 75,483 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. F2Pool found 169 blocks in the week before. Today the block has 4 confirmations.