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Live pulse of the Bitcoin network · data from mempool.space

Updated 8:06 PM ET · Oct 5
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Bitcoin price

$85,767

USD

Block height

970,101

tip of the chain

Hashrate

970 EH/s

network-wide

Mempool

69,893 txs

39.5 MvB waiting

Difficulty epoch

20.1%

1,611 blocks left · next height 971,712

Est. change

+1.9%

Retarget

Oct 16 · 8:02 PM ET

Last adjust

-0.03%

Recommended fees

What wallets suggest right now (satoshis per virtual byte).

Fastest

Aim for the next block

1 sat/vB

~30 minutes

Usually confirms soon

1 sat/vB

~1 hour

Fine if you can wait

1 sat/vB

Economy

Cheapest practical

1 sat/vB

Minimum relay: 1 sat/vB · ~8 projected block(s) in the backlog

What am I looking at?

Block height is how many blocks have been mined since genesis. Each new block is roughly every 10 minutes.

Difficulty retargets every 2,016 blocks so average block time stays ~10 minutes as hashrate rises or falls.

Mempool is the waiting room for unconfirmed transactions. Bigger backlog usually means higher fees.

Fees are a market bid for block space — not a fixed “shipping” rate.

Educational snapshot for Bitcoin Basics. Not financial advice. Numbers from the public Mempool REST API. Mempool fees in backlog ≈ 0.065 BTC.