One block, read at 05:29 UTC
Here is what explorer mempool.space showed at 05:29 UTC on November 9, 2026. The most recent Bitcoin block was number 975,136, stamped 05:24:27 UTC and credited to mining pool Foundry USA, with 2,314 transactions inside.
The pool collected 3.1491545 BTC for that block. Fees made up just 0.0241545 BTC of it.
Odd gaps show up as well. Blocks 975,134 and 975,135 were stamped only 38 seconds apart (05:07:24 and 05:08:02), and then nothing came for more than 16 minutes. If your exchange needs three deposit confirmations, gaps like that decide whether the credit is quick or slow, and the explorer shows you which kind of wait you’re in.
What a transaction page tells you
Ethereum.org keeps a guide to explorers that walks through every field. On a transaction page you’ll usually find the hash first, then a status (pending, failed or success) and the block it landed in. From and To come next, followed by the value and the fee, and the guide spells out that the fee on an Ethereum transaction equals the gas price multiplied by the gas used.
Don’t assume the To address is a person, since it can just as well be a smart contract. For a payment, three readings settle most questions. Has the status left pending? How many blocks have been added on top? And does the To address match, character for character, the one you meant to pay?
Token lines need more care, because anyone can create a token and call it anything. On explorer Blockscout, one transaction from May 3, 2024 was sent by an address starting 0x517D, yet its token tab lists 16 transfers “from” other addresses.
Among them is a token that names itself “Ether”, ticker ETH. Several move a “USDT” whose contract starts 0x5e70, while Tether’s real USDT contract starts 0xdAC17F. Those planted lines are how address poisoning gets a lookalike into a victim’s history.
What the page will not say
An explorer records what the chain did. Whether an exchange has credited your deposit, or whether an address really belongs to the person who sent it to you, sits outside that record.
The ethereum.org guide also points out that so much account data is open that people are often advised to spread their money across several accounts, so their holdings can’t be tracked easily. The openness cuts both ways. Before paying an address you were sent, our address checker puts two more checks in one place, a match against the US sanctions list and a read of the USDT and USDC freeze lists.