⚡ Block #957,217
📦 A Packed Block: 4,404 Transactions Squeeze In
25/ 100
July 8, 2026 at 07:16 PM UTC
Block 957217 is notable for how efficiently it was filled — 4,404 transactions packed into 1.62 MB, right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit. Think of the block weight limit like a shipping container with a maximum load; miners try to fill it as profitably as possible, and this one came very close to the edge.
- Block height: 957,217
- Transactions included: 4,404
- Block size: 1.62 MB — near the maximum allowed weight
- Mined on July 8, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,404
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.62 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,404 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 117,217 blocks after the 4th halving and 92,783 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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- 2024-04-194th halving2y before this block