Live · from the chain
The Bitcoin network, right now
I check these most days. Not because they change what my Bitaxe is doing on the shelf - nothing changes that - but because they're the weather the whole network runs in. Pulled live from the chain: what a coin's worth this minute, how much hashrate you're really up against, and where the trends have been heading.
BTC price
£…
Network hashrate
… EH/s
what you mine against
Difficulty
…
current epoch
Next retarget
…
difficulty adjustment
Block height
…
chain tip
Next halving
… days
until block 1,050,000
Mempool fee
… sat/vB
Fear & Greed
…
Sources: mempool.space, CoinGecko, alternative.me. Refresh for the latest. Based on my open-source Mandala Bitcoin dashboard.
Live · last 15 blocks
Recently mined blocks
The chain, block by block - who found each one, and what it paid.
| Height | Age | Pool | Txs | Size | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| loading the chain… | |||||
Reward is the 3.125 BTC subsidy plus the transaction fees the finder keeps. A solo miner who strikes a block takes the lot.
The last year, and what it means
The single-number tiles tell you where things stand. The trend tells you where they're going - which, for a miner, is usually the more useful half.
Network hashrate
… · 1 year
The line that matters most to a home miner. Every exahash added is more competition for the same 144 blocks a day - as this climbs, your odds get longer, not shorter.
Difficulty
… · 1 year
Difficulty chases hashrate. It retargets every fortnight to keep blocks landing about ten minutes apart, whatever the world plugs in. Rising difficulty is rising competition, plainly stated.
BTC price
… · 1 year
What a found block is actually worth. For a solo miner this is the size of the prize, not the odds of winning it - a bigger number doesn't make the lottery any easier.
Fear & Greed
… · 60 days
Sentiment, not fundamentals. Useful for a sense of the mood, useless for timing. I keep it well away from any decision about the miners on my shelf.
Your odds from here
Every block a home miner finds is luck, not income. That's just how it works, and it's half the reason I like the hobby. So here's the number that actually counts - roughly how often a machine your size would get lucky against the hashrate above.
Bitaxe Gamma
1.2 TH/s solo
~1 block / 13,000 yr
Read the review →
NerdQaxe++
4.8 TH/s solo
~1 block / 3,300 yr
Read the review →
Antminer S21
200 TH/s solo
~1 block / 80 yr
Read the review →
Want to plug in your own machine and your own electricity price? The lottery-odds calculator does exactly that, on the same live data.