Antpool mines Bitcoin block with 11,255 transactions, second densest on record

A block with 11,255 transactions

Block 974961 on the Bitcoin network contained 11,255 transactions, according to a report published by Bits.media on 9 November 2026. The block was mined by Antpool, a mining pool.

Analysts at bitcoin.com said the block is the second densest in the network's history by transaction count. The record was set in 2015, and the new block came 984 transactions short of it, according to the same report.

What block density means

A Bitcoin block is a batch of transactions that miners add to the blockchain, the network's public ledger. Miners choose which pending transactions to include, and protocol rules cap how much data a block can hold, so the number of transactions in a block varies with the size of each one.

Blocks filled with many small transactions can hold more of them than blocks carrying fewer, larger ones. The count in a single block therefore depends on the mix of transactions waiting to be confirmed at that moment.

What the report does not say

The report did not give the date the block was mined, the fees it collected, or the total size of the block. It also did not say whether the count has been confirmed by other block explorers.