⚡ Block #957,238
📦 A fully packed block joins the chain
25/ 100
July 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM UTC
Block 957238 is a busy one — it carries 4,005 transactions and fills almost every byte of available space. Miners bundle transactions into blocks up to a set size limit, and this block pushed right up against that ceiling. A well-packed block like this is a small sign of healthy demand for Bitcoin block space.
- Block height: 957,238
- Transactions: 4,005 — a notably high count
- Block size: 1.69 MB, near the maximum allowed weight
- Mined at: 00:25 UTC on July 9, 2026
Block details
from mempool.space
- Mining pool
- —
- Transactions
- 4,005
- Total fees
- —
- Subsidy
- 3.125 BTC
- Median fee
- —
- Block size
- 1.69 MB
Why our analysis flagged it
score 25/100
- Heavy block: 4,005 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
On this calendar day
- 2nd halving (2016)
This block sits 117,238 blocks after the 4th halving and 92,762 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