The 974,961st block of Bitcoin contains 11,255 transactions, making it the second highest block by transaction count

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Bitcoin block 974961 mined by Antpool packaged 11,255 transactions, becoming the second highest block in network history in terms of transaction count, just 984 transactions short of the historical record of 12,239 transactions set by block 367853 mined by F2pool on August 1, 2015.

The block size is approximately 1.1 MB, occupying nearly 99.85% of the block weight limit, but the transaction fee is only about 0.002405 BTC. The previous block 974557 also reached 10,573 transactions, ranking second in history.