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Bitcoin and the money AI agents might use, in numbers we fetch and calculate ourselves. Each tile says what the number means, where it came from and when. They are snapshots, not predictions, and no AI writes these numbers: a script does, once a day.

Updated 2026-10-19 03:26 UTC. Units differ between tiles (bitcoin, dollars, days), so do not compare them directly.

Block pay

Fees are 0.3% of a typical block

Miners earn a fixed reward (3.125 BTC per block right now) plus the fees people pay. Over the last 144 blocks, fees were a median 0.3% of what a block paid (lowest 0.05%, highest 1.27%).

How we got it: per block, fees ÷ (fees + fixed reward), then the median of the latest blocks from mempool.space.

Mining difficulty

Last change: 5.92% harder

The last adjustment was on 2026-10-16. The next one is estimated at 0.35% harder around 2026-10-30. The estimate can change until it happens.

How we got it: last and estimated adjustment fields from mempool.space.

Next halving

About 523 days (an estimate)

77,898 blocks to go. At the current average of about 580 seconds per block (measured over 390 blocks), that is roughly 523 days. It assumes the pace continues, so treat it as a guess, not a date.

How we got it: blocks remaining × average block time of the current difficulty period.

Lightning Network

3,754 BTC of capacity

16,229 nodes and 32,529 channels, in a snapshot dated 2026-08-30. Lightning is the layer for small, fast Bitcoin payments. A snapshot is not today, so check the date.

How we got it: snapshot published by mempool.space.

Dollar stablecoins

About $295B in circulation

Largest: USDT $183B, USDC $73B, DAI $5B. These are tokens designed to stay worth one dollar. This total is a third-party aggregate of dollar-pegged assets, so other trackers can differ.

How we got it: DefiLlama stablecoin data (a third-party aggregator).

How to read this page

Every figure is fetched from a public source and shown with the date. If a source is down, the tile keeps its last good values and is marked as an older snapshot. We do not predict prices, and we never use price data here. Mining numbers come from mempool.space; the stablecoin total comes from DefiLlama. See how we verify and the Glossary for plain definitions.

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