⚡ Block #958,421
📦 A Packed Block: 4,683 Transactions Crammed In
25/ 100
July 17, 2026 at 01:34 PM UTC
Block 958421 is a busy one — it holds 4,683 transactions and fills Bitcoin's block weight limit almost entirely, leaving very little room to spare. That's a sign of high demand for block space, where many transactions were competing to get confirmed. At 1.61 MB, this block is working hard.
- Block height: 958,421
- Transactions: 4,683 — a notably high count
- Block size: 1.61 MB, packed close to the maximum allowed weight
- Mined on July 17, 2026 at 13:34 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,683
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.61 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,683 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 118,421 blocks after the 4th halving and 91,579 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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- 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
- 2024-04-194th halving2y before this block