⚡ Block #957,237
📦 Block 957237 Packed to the Brim
17/ 100
July 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM UTC
This block squeezed in 3,733 transactions and filled right up to Bitcoin's block weight limit — meaning miners left almost no room to spare. It's a sign of healthy network demand, where users were actively competing to get their transactions included.
- Block height: 957,237
- Transactions: 3,733 — a busy block by recent standards
- Block size: 1.68 MB, at the weight limit
- Mined at: 00:14 UTC on July 9, 2026
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 3,733
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.68 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 17/100
- Busy block: 3,733 transactions+8
- 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
On this calendar day
- 2nd halving (2016)
This block sits 117,237 blocks after the 4th halving and 92,763 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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