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⚑ Block #955,972

πŸ“¦ NiceHash Packs Block 955,972 Nearly to the Brim

25/ 100

June 29, 2026 at 08:11 PM UTC

Block 955,972 landed with 4,205 transactions and was filled almost to Bitcoin's maximum block weight limit β€” meaning miners left very little space unused. While fees remained modest at a median of 4 sat/vB (satoshis per virtual byte, the standard unit for Bitcoin transaction fees), the sheer number of transactions packed in makes this a notably full block.

Coinbase message

left by the miner

DΒ–_AΒ’Ÿ>Β±Γ™yΓͺqΒ–/NiceHashMining/

The coinbase is the first transaction in a block β€” miners can embed a short message in it.

Block details

from mempool.space

Mining pool
NiceHash
Transactions
4,205
Total fees
0.052 BTC
Subsidy
3.125 BTC
Median fee
4 sat/vB
Block size
1.67 MB

Why our analysis flagged it

score 25/100

  • Heavy block: 4,205 transactions+16
  • Block mined right up to the weight limit+8

Scores are computed from on-chain facts (a deterministic heuristic), then a story is written for blocks that clear our curation threshold.

This day in Bitcoin history

reward era 5

This block sits 115,972 blocks after the 4th halving and 94,028 blocks before the 5th β€” Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.

  • 2012-11-281st halving14y before this block
  • 2016-07-092nd halving10y before this block
  • 2017-12-172017 ATH (~$19.5k)9y before this block
  • 2020-05-113rd halving6y before this block
  • 2021-11-102021 ATH (~$69k)5y before this block
  • 2024-03-142024 ATH (~$73k)2y before this block
  • 2024-04-194th halving2y before this block
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