What It Measures
The Bitcoin network's total hash rate (mining power securing the network, in exahashes/second), its trend into the next difficulty adjustment, and current mempool congestion (pending transactions and required fees).
Last updated OCT. 11, 2026 · 6:52 AM UTC
The Bitcoin network's total hash rate (mining power securing the network, in exahashes/second), its trend into the next difficulty adjustment, and current mempool congestion (pending transactions and required fees).
Hash rate and the difficulty-change estimate come directly from mempool.space, computed from actual observed block times since the last retarget - not a projection of our own. A next-retarget change of ±5% or more reads Hash Rate Rising/Falling; anything smaller reads Stable.
Hash rate is Bitcoin's actual security budget - a rising hash rate means more real-world computing power is committed to securing the network. Mempool congestion and fees are a direct read on how much genuine transaction demand the network is seeing right now.
mempool.space's free public API, no key required. Refreshed automatically every 15 minutes.
Refreshed automatically every 15 minutes: nothing here is backfilled or estimated.