⚡ Block #956,071
⛏️ A Solo Miner Packed Block 956071 to the Brim
June 30, 2026 at 12:33 PM UTC
Block 956071 was mined by an unknown solo miner — a rare feat in an era dominated by large mining pools. It squeezed in 4,277 transactions and pushed right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit, meaning whoever mined this used nearly every byte available. Solo mining is when a single miner finds a block without joining a pool, keeping the full reward themselves.
- Miner: unknown / solo miner (not a recognized pool)
- Transactions: 4,277 — a notably heavy block
- Block size: 1.55 MB, filled close to the weight limit
- Total fees collected: 0.000 BTC
- Mined: June 30, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 4,277
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.55 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 35/100
- Heavy block: 4,277 transactions+16
- Mined by an unknown / solo miner+10
- 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
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