⚡ Block #960,557
📦 A Packed Block: 4,954 Transactions Crammed In
25/ 100
August 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM UTC
Block 960557 is a busy one — nearly 5,000 transactions were bundled together, and miners filled it almost completely to the block weight limit (the maximum amount of data Bitcoin allows per block). That kind of efficient packing is worth a closer look.
- Block height: 960,557
- Transactions: 4,954 — well above the typical load
- Block size: 1.59 MB, pushed close to the weight cap
- Mined on August 1, 2026 at 11:42 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 4,954
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.59 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,954 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 120,557 blocks after the 4th halving and 89,443 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
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