MERKLE-21BITCOIN PROOF-OF-WORK OBSERVATORY · MAINNET
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RING · 30-DAY HASHRATE -- PARTICLES · AMBIENT, NOT INDIVIDUAL TX

About MERKLE-21, the Bitcoin proof-of-work observatory

A live, full-screen view of the Bitcoin network, styled like a mission-control screen. Every figure comes from the public mempool.space API and refreshes while the page is open. Open it, go full screen, and leave it running.

What it shows

  • Latest blocks: the last 15 blocks with height, mining pool, transaction count and median fee rate.
  • Hashrate: 30 days of daily average network hashrate, in exahashes per second (EH/s).
  • Difficulty epoch: progress through the current 2,016-block period and the estimated next difficulty adjustment.
  • Mempool: unconfirmed transactions waiting, grouped by fee rate in sat/vB.
  • Supply and halving: bitcoin issued so far and the countdown to the next halving at block 1,050,000.

How to read the screen

  • The ring of bars in the center is the 30-day hashrate. Longer, brighter bars are higher; the brightest bar is the most recent day.
  • The outer arc fills as the difficulty epoch progresses.
  • A shockwave leaves the core each time a new block is found.
  • The blocks along the bottom are the real recent blocks, filled by transaction count.
  • The drifting particles are decoration. Their colors follow the real fee mix, but they are not individual transactions.

How the numbers are calculated

Issued supply uses the current subsidy era: 19,687,500 + (latest height − 839,999) × 3.125 BTC.

The halving estimate assumes 10-minute blocks: (1,050,000 − latest height) × 10 minutes.

Mempool depth in blocks is total vsize ÷ 1,000,000 vB, roughly how many full blocks it would take to clear the backlog.

How fresh is the data?

New blocks and the mempool refresh every 20 seconds, price every minute, difficulty every 5 minutes and hashrate every 30 minutes. The status pill in the header reads LIVE while updates arrive, STALE if none have succeeded for two minutes, and SNAPSHOT if the live feed hasn't loaded yet.

More live consoles are on the Consoles page.

Data: mempool.space. Educational display only. Not financial advice. Financial disclaimer · Trust Center