⚡ Block #956,676
📦 A Packed Block: Nearly Every Byte Put to Work
35/ 100
July 4, 2026 at 05:14 PM UTC
Block 956,676 is a busy one — 5,893 transactions were squeezed in, and the block was filled right up to Bitcoin's weight limit. That means miners (or whoever assembled this block) left almost no space on the table, which is a sign of genuinely high demand for block space at that moment.
- Block height: 956,676 — mined on July 4, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
- 5,893 transactions confirmed in a single block
- Block size: 1.64 MB, pushed to the weight limit
- A full block means transactions were competing for space, with little room to spare
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 5,893
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.64 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 35/100
- Packed block: 5,893 transactions+26
- 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 116,676 blocks after the 4th halving and 93,324 blocks before the 5th — Bitcoin’s 5th reward era.
- 2012-11-281st halving14y before this block
- 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