Bitcoin hashrate and difficulty: current values
Computing power, difficulty and the currently recommended transaction fees.
Computing power, difficulty and the currently recommended transaction fees.
- Hashrate
- 924.76EH/s
- Difficulty
- 132.76T
- Fee, next block
- 2sat/vB
- Fee, half hour
- 1sat/vB
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How to read the chart
The hashrate is the total computing power with which miners secure the Bitcoin network. The higher it is, the more expensive an attack would be in which someone would have to take over the majority of the computing power. Difficulty follows the hashrate: the protocol adjusts it every 2,016 blocks so that on average one block is found every ten minutes.
The recommended fees show what a transaction has to pay right now to get into a block quickly. They are given in satoshi per virtual byte. What that means in dollars depends on the size of the transaction: a simple transfer is small, a transaction with many inputs considerably larger.
How this number is produced
Network computing power as a three-day moving average, current difficulty, and recommended transaction fees in satoshis per virtual byte. Source is mempool.space.
What it does not say
Hashrate cannot be measured directly; it is estimated from the number of blocks found and therefore fluctuates sharply in the short term. Only the trend over days carries meaning.
- Source
- mempool.space
- Update interval
- 10 min
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Frequently asked questions
What does a rising hashrate mean?
More or more efficient mining machines are working on the network. That makes Bitcoin more secure against attacks, because an attacker would have to muster more computing power. The hashrate is not a direct signal for the price. It does show, however, that miners keep investing in machines and electricity.
What is Bitcoin difficulty?
Difficulty determines how many attempts a miner needs on average to find a valid block. Every 2,016 blocks, roughly every two weeks, the network adjusts it: if blocks were found faster than every ten minutes, it rises, otherwise it falls. The next adjustment is shown in the mempool chart.
How high should the fee for a Bitcoin transaction be?
That depends on how quickly it should be confirmed. The chart gives two recommendations from mempool.space: for the next block and for a confirmation within about half an hour. Many wallets apply such values automatically. If you are not in a hurry, you pay considerably less in quiet times.
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