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Block height, hashrate, difficulty, fees and the halving countdown, pulled from public node APIs.
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Block height
970,681
147 blocks in 24h · mempool.space
Hashrate
989 EH/s
mempool.space (3-day avg)
Difficulty
132.72 T
132,716,002,350,731
Average block time
9.65 min
mempool.space (this epoch)
Next difficulty adjustment
+3.73%(estimated)
#971,712 · 1,031 blocks left · ~16 Oct 2026 · previous -0.03%
mempool.space
Fee rates (sat/vB)
2
Next block
1
~30 min
1
~1 hour
1
Economy
Mempool (waiting transactions): 79,392 transactions · 41.0 MvB
mempool.space
Halving countdown · #1,050,000
79,319 blocks left
~12 Apr 2028 (estimate at 10 min per block)
Block reward: 3.125 → 1.5625 BTC
Hashrate, last 12 months (EH/s): daily estimate and 7-day average
mempool.space
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: 9 Oct 2026 22:42 BST · refreshes every minute