⚡ Block #955,972
📦 NiceHash Packs Block 955,972 Nearly to the Brim
June 29, 2026 at 08:11 PM UTC
Block 955,972 landed with 4,205 transactions and was filled almost to Bitcoin's maximum block weight limit — meaning miners left very little space unused. While fees remained modest at a median of 4 sat/vB (satoshis per virtual byte, the standard unit for Bitcoin transaction fees), the sheer number of transactions packed in makes this a notably full block.
- Mined by NiceHash on June 29, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
- 4,205 transactions — a high count for a single block
- Block size: 1.67 MB, pushed close to the weight limit
- Total fees collected: 0.052 BTC
- Median fee rate: 4 sat/vB — relatively low despite the full block
Coinbase message
left by the miner
D_A¢>±Ùyêq/NiceHashMining/
The coinbase is the first transaction in a block — miners can embed a short message in it.
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- NiceHash
- Transactions
- 4,205
- Total fees
- 0.052 BTC
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- 4 sat/vB
- Block size
- 1.67 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,205 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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