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Bitcoin

Bitcoin network

What the chain is doing right now, how much of the market it is, and what we have written about it.

Bitcoin network

Current block

967,646

34 blocks until the next difficulty adjustment

1,982 / 2,016

Hashrate
941.7 EH/s
Difficulty
127.45 T
Average block time
9.6 min10.0 min by design
Block reward
3.125 BTCSet by the halving schedule
Next adjustment
5 hours+4.04% projected
Fee, next block
1 sat/vB1 sat/vB within the hour
Waiting to confirm
40.9 MB78,649 transactions, about 40.9 blocks

Chain data from mempool.space. The hashrate is their three-day average; the next adjustment is their estimate and moves as blocks are found.

Bitcoin supply

20.09M BTC

Issued by the block schedule

95.65% of the cap

20,086,393 BTC issued20,999,999 BTC cap
95.6%issued
Still to be issued
0.91M BTC4.35% of the cap
Block reward
3.125 BTCHalves every 210,000 blocks
Next halving
82,354 blocksAt block 1,050,000 · 60.8% through this epoch

The cap is 20,999,999.9769 BTC, not 21 million: each reward is floored to a whole satoshi, and the shortfall adds up. Every figure here is computed from the block height and the protocol’s own rules.

Halving countdown
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