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

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◉Bitcoin nodes online25,799countries, Core vs Knots, run your own →October 2026 so far-2.78% · $81,237avg +18.18% · median +12.77% since 2013 · returns heatmap →

Bitcoin price

$81,237

−3.32% 24h · 1,231 sats per $1

Coinbase · 23 Oct 2026 00:02 BST · refreshes every 30 s

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Block height

972,668

124 blocks in 24h · mempool.space

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Hashrate

1,035 EH/s

mempool.space (3-day avg)

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Difficulty

140.58 T

140,577,680,051,920

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Average block time

9.69 min

mempool.space (this epoch)

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Next difficulty adjustment

+3.30%(estimated)

#973,728 · 1,060 blocks left · ~30 Oct 2026 · previous +5.92%

mempool.space · details & history →

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Fee rates (sat/vB)

Next block

~30 min

~1 hour

Economy

Mempool (waiting transactions): 44,580 transactions · 24.0 MvB

mempool.space

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Halving countdown · #1,050,000

77,332 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

mempool.space

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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: 23 Oct 2026 00:02 BST · refreshes every minute