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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

968,519

Last block 18 minutes ago · Foundry USA

Next halving

583 d 15 h

Block 1,050,000 · around 30 Apr 2028

Difficulty adjustment

−2.94%

In 1,177 blocks · ~8 d 10 h

Hashrate

934 EH/s

Difficulty 132.76 T

Bitcoin price

$84,008.60

Coins issued

20,089,125 BTC

95.66% of the 21 million cap

Block reward

3.125 BTC

+ fees · 1.5625 BTC after the halving

Mempool

79,294 txs

40.7 vMB waiting · 0.065 BTC in fees

Fees right now

What to pay for a typical 141-vbyte payment.

Fee estimator

Next block

1sat/vB

≈ $0.1185 · ~10 minutes

Within 30 minutes

0.61sat/vB

≈ $0.0731 · ~3 blocks

Within an hour

0.34sat/vB

≈ $0.0403 · ~6 blocks

Economy

0.2sat/vB

≈ $0.0244 · hours to a day

Next blocks

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

Transaction stuck?

Next block

~0.4

sat/vB median

0.29 – 15 sat/vB

6,304 txs · full

$479.55 in fees

in ~10 min

Block +2

~0.32

sat/vB median

0.3 – 0.33 sat/vB

7,125 txs · full

$272.75 in fees

in ~20 min

Block +3

~0.31

sat/vB median

0.26 – 0.32 sat/vB

5,400 txs · full

$260.50 in fees

in ~30 min

Block +4

~0.28

sat/vB median

0.26 – 0.3 sat/vB

388 txs · full

$240.07 in fees

in ~40 min

Block +5

~0.24

sat/vB median

0.22 – 0.26 sat/vB

2,588 txs · full

$201.32 in fees

in ~50 min

Block +6

~0.22

sat/vB median

0.21 – 0.22 sat/vB

1,762 txs · full

$181.38 in fees

in ~60 min

Block +7

~0.21

sat/vB median

0.21 – 0.21 sat/vB

7,935 txs · full

$173.89 in fees

in ~70 min

Block +8

~0.12

sat/vB median

0.1 – 0.21 sat/vB

47,857 txs · full

$3,668.34 in fees

in ~80 min

Latest blocks

HeightMinedPoolTransactionsMedian feeReward
968,51918 minutes agoFoundry USA6,4010.40 sat/vB3.136 BTC
968,51824 minutes agoAntPool4,8571.01 sat/vB3.136 BTC
968,51719 minutes agoSpiderPool3,1212.17 sat/vB3.167 BTC
968,51656 minutes agoSECPOOL4,4581.00 sat/vB3.161 BTC
968,5151 hour agoAntPool5,7570.40 sat/vB3.142 BTC
968,5141 hour agoF2Pool5,0571.01 sat/vB3.144 BTC
968,5132 hours agoViaBTC5,8860.35 sat/vB3.134 BTC
968,5122 hours agoWhitePool5,7730.34 sat/vB3.130 BTC
968,5112 hours agoFoundry USA5,5701.00 sat/vB3.139 BTC
968,5102 hours agoViaBTC3,6221.69 sat/vB3.169 BTC

Mining pools

Share of the last 993 blocks (one week).

  • Foundry USA24.0% · 238
  • AntPool21.9% · 217
  • F2Pool15.3% · 152
  • ViaBTC9.7% · 96
  • SpiderPool8.3% · 82
  • MARA Pool5.0% · 50
  • SECPOOL3.9% · 39
  • Luxor3.0% · 30

Lightning Network

Public channels and nodes, as announced to the network. mempool.space snapshot of 20 Aug 2026.

Capacity

3,750 BTC

$315.05M

Channels

33.1K

Nodes

16.4K

8.1K on Tor

Median fee rate

100 ppm

0.010% per hop

Not updated by the source since 20 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.