Bitcoin network stats
What it costs to send bitcoin right now, how much computing power secures the network, when the next difficulty adjustment and halving land, and who is mining the blocks. Data from mempool.space.
Transaction fees
sat/vB, and the cost of a typical 140 vB payment74,612 transactions waiting in the mempool (39.8 vMB, about 40 blocks of backlog).
Halving countdown
79,870 blocks to go
- Next halving block1,050,000
- Estimated dateMarch 2028
- Block reward now3.125 BTC
- Block reward after1.5625 BTC
- Bitcoin mined so far20,094,159 (95.69%)
Difficulty adjustment
+4.22% estimated
- Progress through epoch21.5%
- Blocks remaining1,582
- Estimated dateOct 16, 2026
- Average block time9.5 min
- Previous adjustment-0.03%
- Current difficulty132.72T
Hashrate, past 3 months
EH/s, daily averageLatest blocks
Mining pools, past week
1,034 blocks mined in the past 7 days.
Questions
When is the next bitcoin halving?
The next halving happens at block 1,050,000, expected around April 2028, when the block reward falls by half.
What is a good bitcoin fee right now?
For confirmation in the next block, about 1 sat/vB. If you can wait an hour, about 1 sat/vB is usually enough.
What is hashrate?
Hashrate is the total computing power miners point at bitcoin. Higher hashrate makes the network more expensive to attack.
What is the difficulty adjustment?
Every 2,016 blocks, about two weeks, bitcoin resets how hard it is to find a block so that blocks keep arriving roughly every 10 minutes, however much hashrate joins or leaves.