⚡ Block #957,494
⛏️ SBI Crypto mines a quiet block with surprisingly slim fees
July 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM UTC
Block 957494 was mined by SBI Crypto and packed in 840 transactions — yet the total fees collected came to just 0.006 BTC, which is unusually low for that many transactions. The miner also left a small personal signature in the coinbase message (a field miners can write anything into), mixing readable text with some raw binary characters.
- Mined by: SBI Crypto
- Transactions: 840
- Total fees collected: 0.006 BTC (notably low)
- Block size: 0.43 MB
- Coinbase message includes the tag: /SBICrypto.com Pool/
Coinbase message
left by the miner
6ñQj/SBICrypto.com Pool/eu t èÿIjÛ÷/
The coinbase is the first transaction in a block — miners can embed a short message in it.
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- SBI Crypto
- Transactions
- 840
- Total fees
- 0.006 BTC
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- 0 sat/vB
- Block size
- 0.43 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 21/100
- Unusually low fees: 0.006 BTC+12
- Notable coinbase message left by the miner+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 117,494 blocks after the 4th halving and 92,506 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
- 2012-11-281st halving14y before this block
- 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