What does this mean?
What one bitcoin costs in US dollars right now, set by buyers and sellers around the world.
Bitcoin dashboard
The numbers that describe the Bitcoin network, in plain English. Open any card to learn what it means.
What does this mean?
The number of blocks added to the chain so far. A new block arrives about every 10 minutes and holds a batch of confirmed transactions.
What does this mean?
Every 210,000 blocks, the reward miners earn for each block is cut in half. It slows how quickly new bitcoin is created and is built into the rules.
What does this mean?
Only 21 million bitcoin will ever exist. This shows how many have been created so far and how close we are to the cap.
What does this mean?
The total computing power protecting the network. A higher number makes the network harder to attack.
What does this mean?
What it costs to get a transaction confirmed quickly, in sats per virtual byte. Fees rise when many people are sending at once.
What does this mean?
Transactions that are paid and waiting for the next block. A long line pushes fees up.
What does this mean?
About every two weeks (2,016 blocks), the network resets how hard mining is so blocks keep arriving about 10 minutes apart.
Price history and halvings
Move across the chart to see the price on a date. Dashed lines mark halvings.
Network data comes from the public mempool.space service. Price history comes from Coin Metrics. Educational only, not financial advice.