⚡ Block #956,675
📦 A Packed Block: 4,713 Transactions Fill the Chain
July 4, 2026 at 05:10 PM UTC
Block 956675 is a busy one — it carries 4,713 transactions and is packed almost completely to the weight limit, meaning miners squeezed in about as much activity as a single Bitcoin block can hold. The weight limit (think of it like a size cap per block) ensures the network doesn't get overloaded, so hitting it means demand for block space was high at this moment.
- Block height: 956,675
- Transactions: 4,713 — a notably high count
- Block size: 1.87 MB, filled close to the maximum weight limit
- Mined on July 4, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,713
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
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- Block size
- 1.87 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,713 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 116,675 blocks after the 4th halving and 93,325 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