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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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Drag or scroll sideways to move along the chain. 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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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?
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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.
CONFUSED BY A NUMBER?
Every stat on this page has a plain-English glossary entry.
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WANT TO MINE A BLOCK?
See the home miners that add to that hashrate number from a bookshelf.
Home miner rankings →
FEES LOOK LOW?
Low-fee windows are the best time to move coins to self-custody.
Wallet rankings →