⚡ Block #961,143
📦 Block 961143 packed nearly every byte available
25/ 100
August 5, 2026 at 09:42 AM UTC
This block landed with 4,781 transactions squeezed into 1.63 MB — right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit. That means whoever assembled this block (called the miner) filled it as efficiently as possible, leaving almost no room to spare. It's a tidy snapshot of a busy moment on the network.
- Block height: 961,143
- Transactions: 4,781 — a notably high count
- Block size: 1.63 MB, filled close to the weight limit
- Mined on August 5, 2026 at 09:42 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,781
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.63 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,781 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
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