⚡ Block #956,673
📦 A fully loaded block squeezes in 4,421 transactions
July 4, 2026 at 04:58 PM UTC
Block 956673 arrived packed to the brim — 4,421 transactions crammed into 1.69 MB, pushing right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit. That weight limit is a built-in cap on how much data each block can carry, so hitting it means miners fit in nearly as much activity as the protocol allows. A busy block like this is a snapshot of high network demand.
- Block height: 956,673
- Mined on July 4, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
- 4,421 transactions included
- Block size: 1.69 MB — at the weight limit
- Block weight limit reached, leaving almost no room to spare
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 4,421
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.69 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,421 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 116,673 blocks after the 4th halving and 93,327 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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