⚡ Block #957,229
📦 A Block Packed to the Brim
35/ 100
July 8, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
Block 957229 squeezed in 5,109 transactions and filled right up to Bitcoin's block weight limit — the cap on how much data a single block can hold. That kind of efficient packing means miners (or their software) did a good job selecting transactions to maximize use of the available space.
- Block height: 957,229
- Transactions: 5,109 — a notably busy block
- Block size: 1.65 MB, right at the weight limit
- Mined on July 8, 2026 at 21:58 UTC
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
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- Transactions
- 5,109
- Total fees
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- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.65 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 35/100
- Packed block: 5,109 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
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