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The numbers that describe Bitcoin at this moment, and under each one a few lines on what it tells you. Times are UTC. The figures come from other people's servers and can be late, so treat them as a guide.
Price, US dollars
$81,276 +1.90% 24h
- 24-hour high
- $81,694
- 24-hour low
- $79,692
- As of
- 11:49 UTC
This is the last trade on one large exchange, not an official price, because Bitcoin has none. Every exchange shows a slightly different figure. The change compares now with the same time yesterday. The line is seven days of hourly prices.
Source: Coinbase. If its feed stops, Kraken is used and named here.
Block height
973,547
- Latest block found
- 11:41 UTC
- Blocks in the last 24 hours
- 158
Bitcoin's history is a chain of blocks, each a batch of transactions. The height is how many there have been. A new one arrives about every ten minutes on average, but the gaps are irregular: two minutes and forty minutes are both normal. A payment counts as settled once a few blocks sit on top of it.
Source: Blockstream explorer, Blockchair.
Fee to send
0.1 sat/vB
- Next block, about 10 minutes
- 0.1 sat/vB
- Within about an hour
- 0.1 sat/vB
- Within about a day
- 0.1 sat/vB
A fee is a bid for space in a block, priced in satoshis per virtual byte (a satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin). It depends on how much data your transaction takes, not on how much money it moves. A plain payment is roughly 140 virtual bytes, so at 2 sat/vB it costs about 280 satoshis. When blocks are full the bids rise, and patient senders pay less.
Source: Blockstream explorer fee estimates.
Waiting to confirm
44,623 transactions
Transactions that have been broadcast but are not yet in a block wait in what is called the mempool. A long queue means competition for space and higher fees. A short one means even the cheapest transactions get through quickly. Every node keeps its own copy, so this count is one server's view.
Source: Blockchair.
Hashrate
1,106 EH/s
The combined guessing speed of every mining machine on the network, in exahashes per second: a million million million guesses each second. Nobody can measure it directly. It is worked out from how fast blocks have been arriving over the last day, so it wobbles. More hashrate makes the chain more expensive to attack.
Source: Blockchair, 24-hour estimate.
Difficulty
140.58 T
- Next adjustment, estimate
- Thu 29 Oct
How hard it is to find a block, shown in trillions. Every 2,016 blocks, about two weeks, the network resets it so that blocks keep arriving ten minutes apart whatever the hashrate has done. If miners added machines it goes up, and if they switched off it goes down. A rise squeezes miners' earnings per machine.
Source: Blockchair.
Next halving
~531 days to go
- At block
- 1,050,000
- Blocks left
- 76,453
- Around
- Apr 2028
Each block pays the miner who found it a reward of new bitcoin. Every 210,000 blocks that reward is cut in half, which is how the supply is capped at 21 million. The date is not fixed. We work it out from the blocks left at ten minutes each, so it shifts by days as blocks come faster or slower.
Calculated here from the block height.
How these numbers get here
Your browser does not contact any exchange or explorer. Our server asks Coinbase for the price and Blockstream's explorer for blocks and fees about once a minute, and Blockchair for network statistics every five minutes, then hands the same copy to every visitor. If a provider stops answering, the last number stays on screen and the tape marks it as delayed with its time.
Nothing on this page is advice to buy, sell or send. Check a second source before you act on a number.