Bitcoin block explorer, straight from our own node

971,628

blocks, and counting. The last one came 16 minutes ago, found by AntPool.

25,931 reachable nodes keep a full copy of Bitcoin, ours among them. Each dot is a country; another 17,062 run over Tor or I2P.btcnodes.io, 2026-10-09

Fee rate: 0.8 sat/vB; gets you into the next block: about $0.09 for a simple payment
Waiting: 55,586; transactions waiting in the mempool, about 30 blocks' worth
Hashrate: 1,028 EH/s; of hashrate, the guesses miners make each second, over the last week
Difficulty: +6.3%; is the next difficulty change, expected in 84 blocks (about 14 hours)

Live

The next block

A new block arrives about every 10 minutes, but never on a schedule: whoever finds it first does so by chance.

15:35of about 10:00

Block 971,629 is being mined

Longer than the 10-minute average. That's normal: about a third of blocks take longer. The last one was found by AntPool.

The last 16 minutes. Each block is as wide as the time it took to find.

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Latest

Blocks

Transactions, as they arrive

All blocks Pool names come from the coinbase tag: claims, not proof.

Help

Is my transaction stuck?

Paste a transaction ID. Its page tells you in one sentence where it stands, and what you can do about it.

Confirmed: which block, and how many have piled on top. Six or more is final for most purposes.
Waiting: its place in line (the next block takes 0.8 sat/vB and up), and how to speed it up.
Not seen: why that can happen, and what it means for the coins.

Mining

Every 10 minutes, miners are paid ≈ $261,000

3.125 BTC of new coins plus the fees in the block, to whoever finds it first. Millions of machines race for it, each making about 200 trillion guesses a second; the difficulty keeps the pace at one block every 10 minutes.

Who found the last 1,008 blocks

Mining, in full

A few pools coordinate most of the hashrate, but the machines belong to thousands of miners, who can switch pools in minutes.

Foundry USA26%
AntPool21%
F2Pool16%
ViaBTC10%
MARA Pool6%
SpiderPool5%
Luxor4%
Other11%

The next halving

78,372 blocks to go

Sometime between March and April 2028 the new bitcoin per block drops from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC. The countdown

A gold bitcoin coin beside the same coin at half its size — 3.125→1.5625 BTC

This epoch

62.7% of 210,000 blocks

2012

50 → 25

2016

25 → 12.5

2020

12.5 → 6.25

2024

6.25 → 3.125

Last time, in April 2024, miners' income in new bitcoin halved overnight, and fees in that one block paid them twelve times the new coins.

History

Blocks that made Bitcoin

Every one of them is still on the chain, and you can open it.

All notable blocks

Learn

Bitcoin from zero

One idea at a time: try it here, or tap any underlined word on this site for a plain explanation.

All the words

How a block is found

Miners guess. Each guess turns the block into a hash, a 64-character fingerprint, and the block only counts when its hash starts with about 19 zeros. There is no shortcut, so try your luck.

Your hash appears here.