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Block height, hashrate, difficulty, fees and the halving countdown, pulled from public node APIs.

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Block height
970,858
150 blocks in 24h · mempool.space
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Hashrate
1,018 EH/s
mempool.space (3-day avg)
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Difficulty
132.72 T
132,716,002,350,731
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Average block time
9.66 min
mempool.space (this epoch)
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Next difficulty adjustment
+3.62%(estimated)
#971,712 · 854 blocks left · ~16 Oct 2026 · previous -0.03%
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Fee rates (sat/vB)
3
Next block
1
~30 min
1
~1 hour
1
Economy
Mempool (waiting transactions): 81,396 transactions · 41.0 MvB
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Halving countdown · #1,050,000
79,142 blocks left
~12 Apr 2028 (estimate at 10 min per block)
Block reward: 3.125 → 1.5625 BTC
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Hashrate, last 12 months (EH/s): daily estimate and 7-day average
70090011001300OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
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Hashrate is the total computing power securing Bitcoin. Difficulty adjusts every 2,016 blocks (about two weeks) so that blocks keep coming roughly every 10 minutes. Fees are what you pay per byte to get a transaction into a block; they rise when the mempool is crowded.

Updated: 11 Oct 2026 03:21 BST · refreshes every minute