⚡ Block #956,515
📦 Block 956515 Packed Nearly Every Byte It Could
25/ 100
July 3, 2026 at 03:57 PM UTC
This block landed with 4,281 transactions and a size of 1.57 MB — essentially filled to the brim. Bitcoin blocks have a weight limit, and this one came right up against it, meaning miners squeezed in as much activity as the protocol allows.
- Block height: 956,515
- 4,281 transactions included
- Block size: 1.57 MB — at the weight limit
- Mined on July 3, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,281
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.57 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,281 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 116,515 blocks after the 4th halving and 93,485 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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- 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