⚡ Block #956,981
📦 Block 956981 Packed to the Rafters
25/ 100
July 7, 2026 at 02:46 AM UTC
This block landed with 4,105 transactions squeezed into 1.54 MB — right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit. That means whoever was filling the mempool (the waiting room for unconfirmed transactions) kept miners very busy, and almost no space was left on the table.
- Block height: 956,981
- Transactions: 4,105 — a notably high count
- Block size: 1.54 MB, essentially at the weight limit
- Mined at: 02:46 UTC on July 7, 2026
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 4,105
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.54 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,105 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
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