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Data through Oct 26, 2026 · updated

The Bitcoin network from the chain itself: how busy it is, what users pay miners to get into a block, how much computing power guards it, and when the reward next halves. No price, just the ledger.

BusyBitcoin is busy: 761,046 transactions a day, 58.3% more than a year earlier, while fees per block are 9.5% lower.

Watch: The next halving, around Mar 2028 (76,616 blocks away), cuts the reward per block from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC, so miners lean more on fees.

What changed this week vs the week before

  • Fee per block−0.0010 BTC −6.0%
  • Transactions a day+40,556 +5.6%
  • Hash rate+30 EH/s +2.9%
  • +1 more for members
Every headline number4 readings with their changes
Average fee per block0.0156 BTC−9.5% vs a year earlierFees paid to miners per block, 7-day average
Transactions a day761,046+58.3% vs a year earlierOn-chain transactions, 7-day average
Hash rate (estimate)1,080 EH/s−4.4% vs a year earlierImplied by difficulty and block times, 7-day average
Blocks to the next halving76,616 blocksBlock 1,050,000 around Mar 6, 2028, when the reward drops to 1.5625 BTC
About the dataBitcoin blockchain via Google BigQuery · refreshed daily

Every figure is read from the Bitcoin blockchain through Google’s BigQuery public dataset crypto_bitcoin, once a day after the UTC day ends. Fees are what users pay on top of the block reward; daily fee figures start in January 2024. The hash rate is estimated from the mining difficulty and how fast blocks were found that day, so it is noisy day to day; the charts smooth it.

The halving date is an estimate: the blocks left at the pace of the last 2,016 blocks (one difficulty period). Prices are not shown. Data through Oct 26, 2026, block 973,384.

Source: crypto_bitcoin public dataset (blocks, transactions), Google BigQuery public data.

How the takeaway is decided

  • Rising or Falling (Busy or Quiet for transactions): more than 10% above or below a year earlier.

The words and colours come from these rules, applied to the newest data on every update; they describe the data and are not advice.