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Bitcoin network

The state of the network right now (blocks, the halving, difficulty, hashrate, fees and the Lightning Network), refreshed every minute.

Block height

968,227

Last block 8 minutes ago · Luxor

Next halving

586 d 20 h

Block 1,050,000 · around 2 May 2028

Difficulty adjustment

−3.06%

In 1,469 blocks · ~10 d 13 h

Hashrate

921 EH/s

Difficulty 132.76 T

Bitcoin price

$86,850.73

Coins issued

20,088,213 BTC

95.66% of the 21 million cap

Block reward

3.125 BTC

+ fees · 1.5625 BTC after the halving

Mempool

84,895 txs

41.9 vMB waiting · 0.075 BTC in fees

Fees right now

What to pay for a typical 141-vbyte payment.

Fee estimator

Next block

1sat/vB

≈ $0.1225 · ~10 minutes

Within 30 minutes

0.64sat/vB

≈ $0.079 · ~3 blocks

Within an hour

0.35sat/vB

≈ $0.0434 · ~6 blocks

Economy

0.2sat/vB

≈ $0.0252 · hours to a day

Next blocks

How the waiting transactions would be packed into blocks, highest fees first.

Transaction stuck?

Next block

~0.46

sat/vB median

0.36140 sat/vB

5,927 txs · full

$1,083.02 in fees

in ~10 min

Block +2

~0.32

sat/vB median

0.270.38 sat/vB

7,165 txs · full

$288.28 in fees

in ~20 min

Block +3

~0.32

sat/vB median

0.290.32 sat/vB

7,024 txs · full

$272.99 in fees

in ~30 min

Block +4

~0.3

sat/vB median

0.290.31 sat/vB

811 txs · full

$261.19 in fees

in ~40 min

Block +5

~0.29

sat/vB median

0.260.3 sat/vB

2,963 txs · full

$248.54 in fees

in ~50 min

Block +6

~0.25

sat/vB median

0.220.28 sat/vB

2,620 txs · full

$213.06 in fees

in ~60 min

Block +7

~0.22

sat/vB median

0.210.22 sat/vB

1,025 txs · full

$188.88 in fees

in ~70 min

Block +8

~0.13

sat/vB median

0.10.21 sat/vB

57,370 txs · full

$3,996.47 in fees

in ~80 min

Latest blocks

HeightMinedPoolTransactionsMedian feeReward
968,2278 minutes agoLuxor4,4451.13 sat/vB3.143 BTC
968,22620 minutes agoF2Pool4,9461.01 sat/vB3.141 BTC
968,22532 minutes agoF2Pool5,4511.00 sat/vB3.137 BTC
968,22436 minutes agoNiceHash3,5002.01 sat/vB3.149 BTC
968,22343 minutes agoF2Pool3,5343.47 sat/vB3.168 BTC
968,2222 hours agoFoundry USA5,4330.41 sat/vB3.138 BTC
968,2212 hours agoSpiderPool6,0050.53 sat/vB3.139 BTC
968,2202 hours agoFoundry USA3,8241.00 sat/vB3.138 BTC
968,2192 hours agoFoundry USA4,3852.13 sat/vB3.155 BTC
968,2182 hours agoViaBTC3,5363.00 sat/vB3.160 BTC

Mining pools

Share of the last 997 blocks (one week).

  • Foundry USA25.0% · 249
  • AntPool20.7% · 206
  • F2Pool15.5% · 155
  • ViaBTC8.9% · 89
  • SpiderPool7.3% · 73
  • MARA Pool5.2% · 52
  • SECPOOL4.1% · 41
  • Luxor3.3% · 33

Lightning Network

Public channels and nodes, as announced to the network. mempool.space snapshot of 30 Aug 2026.

Capacity

3,754 BTC

$326.02M

Channels

32.5K

Nodes

16.2K

8K on Tor

Median fee rate

100 ppm

0.010% per hop

Not updated by the source since 30 Aug 2026. mempool.space has published no newer Lightning statistics, so these are the figures from that day.

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Network data: mempool.space and Blockstream. Refreshed every minute.

Bitcoin price: Data provided by CoinGecko

Questions

When is the next Bitcoin halving?

Every 210,000 blocks the block subsidy halves. The countdown above divides the blocks left by the recent average time between blocks, so the date moves a little as hashrate changes. The next halving cuts the subsidy from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC per block.

What is the difficulty adjustment?

Every 2,016 blocks (about two weeks) Bitcoin retunes how hard blocks are to find so they keep arriving roughly every ten minutes. If blocks came faster than that, difficulty rises; slower, it falls.

What does hashrate tell me?

Hashrate estimates how much computing power secures the network, from how quickly blocks are being found at the current difficulty. Higher hashrate makes the chain more expensive to attack.

How many bitcoin exist?

Supply is fixed by the protocol: every block adds the current subsidy and nothing else. The issued figure above is calculated from the block height, so it is exact: about 21 million will ever exist, the last fraction in around 2140.