Mempool.space and Blockstream independently return the same hash for Bitcoin block 971,372, timestamped October 14 at 07:31:28 UTC. Both record 1,215 transactions, 664,020 serialized bytes and a block weight of 1,810,692.
Bitcoin Core’s consensus code sets the maximum block weight at 4,000,000. Dividing the observed weight by that limit gives about 45.3 percent. That calculation describes this block’s use of protocol capacity; it is not a percentage of global transaction demand.
Transaction count and byte size answer different questions, and neither alone describes the fee market. A block can include transactions of different sizes and witness structures. Its header identifies a mined result, not the intentions of every user who might have wanted settlement.
This filing therefore preserves a specific, cross-checked chain artifact without promoting it into a trend. It does not infer a network outage, falling adoption, a particular miner strategy or a price signal. To evaluate congestion, one would need observations across blocks and the pending-transaction set, with equally explicit timestamps.
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