⚡ Block #957,218
📦 A Packed Block: 4,392 Transactions Filed Away
25/ 100
July 8, 2026 at 07:34 PM UTC
Block 957218 arrived on July 8, 2026 carrying 4,392 transactions — a notably busy block that pushed right up against Bitcoin's block weight limit. Think of the weight limit as a shipping container with a fixed capacity; this one was packed nearly full, meaning miners squeezed in as many transactions as the rules allow.
- Block height: 957,218
- Transactions: 4,392 — a heavy load by typical standards
- Block size: 1.58 MB, filling close to the maximum allowed weight
- Mined at: 19:34 UTC on July 8, 2026
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 4,392
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.58 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,392 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.
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