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The Bitcoin network right now — price, fees, blocks, mining, and Lightning, straight from mempool.space.

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Opens the result on mempool.space — we detect whether it's an address, a transaction, or a block. Try your own wallet address.

The chain, right now

■ WAITING IN MEMPOOL ■ MINED

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Left of the line: transaction batches waiting to be mined, priced by fee. Right: the most recent blocks added to the chain, newest first.

BTC PRICE

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USD · updated {{ updatedAgo }}

BLOCK HEIGHT

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blocks since Jan 2009

MEMPOOL

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unconfirmed txs · {{ mempoolSize }} vMB

HASHRATE

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hash rate securing the network

Fees right now WHAT IS SAT/VB?

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FAST ~10 MIN

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MEDIUM ~30 MIN

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SLOW ~1 HOUR

sat/vB — what you'd pay per virtual byte to send a transaction right now. A typical send costs about {{ typicalFee }} at the medium rate.

Difficulty adjustment WHAT IS DIFFICULTY?

{{ diffChange }} estimated next change

{{ diffProgress }} through this epoch {{ diffBlocksLeft }} blocks to retarget

Every 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks) the network re-tunes how hard mining is, keeping blocks ~10 minutes apart no matter how many miners join.

Mining pools — last 7 days FULL MINING DATA →

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Who mined the last week's blocks. Want to add a (tiny) slice of your own? Home miners →

Lightning Network FULL LIGHTNING DATA →

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NODES

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CHANNELS

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BTC CAPACITY

Bitcoin's instant-payment layer: coins locked into payment channels that settle back to the chain. New to Lightning? Glossary entry → · Lightning wallets →

Latest blocks

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Data: mempool.space public API · no account, no key, free to verify yourself.

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FEES LOOK LOW?

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