The live BTC spot price and intraday history come from Binance.us (with Coinbase as a fallback), polled every 15 seconds. Market cap, 24-hour volume, and all-time-high data come from CoinGecko every 5 minutes. Longer-range history (1M / YTD / 1Y / 5Y / ALL) is fetched from Binance.us kline endpoints and cached for 30 seconds to 12 hours depending on range, to stay within public rate limits.

All on-chain vitals — block height, hash rate, difficulty, mempool depth, sat/vB fee tiers, halving countdown, mined supply, Lightning Network capacity — are pulled server-side from mempool.space's public API, refreshing every 30 seconds. Reachable-node counts and Bitcoin Core version distribution come from bitnodes.io. The Fear & Greed Index comes from alternative.me.

Fee tiers (Next Block / 30 Min / 1 Hour+) come directly from mempool.space's recommended-fees endpoint in sat/vB. The USD-equivalent per-transaction estimate assumes a typical 140-vByte single-input, two-output SegWit (P2WPKH) transaction — real fees scale linearly with your transaction's size, so a 10-input consolidation will cost several times more.

Bitcoin's annual electricity consumption is derived live from the network's current hash rate multiplied by a 30 J/TH fleet-wide efficiency figure — the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index's (CBECI) rolling midpoint estimate for the installed mining fleet. That is compared against an aggregate published estimate of roughly 8 TWh/yr for all remaining non-BTC proof-of-work chains combined (Litecoin, Dogecoin, Kaspa, Monero, Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin Cash, ZCash). After Ethereum's Merge in September 2022 collapsed ~85 TWh/yr from the PoW total, Bitcoin now accounts for roughly 95% or more of all proof-of-work electricity consumed globally.

The Bitcoin protocol cuts the block subsidy in half every 210,000 blocks — roughly every four years. The countdown shows the number of blocks remaining until the next halving, an estimated calendar date based on the network's 10-minute average block time, the current epoch's mining progress, and the current-vs-post-halving block reward in both BTC and USD terms. The next halving after April 2024 (which cut the reward to 3.125 BTC) is projected for spring 2028, when the subsidy will drop to 1.5625 BTC per block.

Every past Bitcoin halving cycle plotted on a shared x-axis of days-since-halving. Toggle between price relative to the halving-day price (which lines up cycle shapes so you can compare relative moves) and USD on a log scale. A vertical marker shows where we are in the current 2024 cycle. Past cycles are not a predictive model — Bitcoin's issuance is deterministic, its market cycles are not.

The share of recent blocks produced by each mining pool, ranked and colored. Concentration is measured with the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI): sum of squared market shares (0–10,000). Below 1,500 is diverse, 1,500–2,500 is moderate, above 2,500 is concentrated per the U.S. DOJ/FTC threshold. Toggle the window (24H / 1W / 1M / 1Y) to see how pool leadership changes across timeframes. Source: mempool.space.

Total computing power dedicated to mining Bitcoin, in exahashes per second (EH/s), over multi-year windows. Rising hash rate = more capital committed to network security; a sustained crash typically signals miner capitulation. Not price-following in the short run; strongly price-correlated over cycles. Source: mempool.space.

Multiple moving averages (9d/14d/25d/40d/60d/90d/128d/200d) of Bitcoin mining difficulty, plotted together as a ribbon. When the fast MA compresses below the slow MA (crossover), it means hash rate is falling faster than the 2-week difficulty-adjustment window can catch — historically a miner-capitulation zone. Popularized by Willy Woo. Source: mempool.space.

Miners are paid a fixed block subsidy (halved every 210,000 blocks) plus the transaction fees included in that block. This chart stacks the two so you can see whether fees are growing as a share of miner revenue — the visual test of whether Bitcoin's post-halving fee-market transition is happening yet. Source: mempool.space; USD conversion uses the current spot price, so treat the USD axis as directional.

Active Addresses = unique Bitcoin addresses that appeared in a transaction on a given day (a directional network-activity signal, not a user count). UTXO Count = the total set of live coins (unspent transaction outputs) on Bitcoin. Rising UTXO count = coins fragmenting into more, smaller pieces; falling = holders consolidating. Both series from blockchain.com Charts.

The live BTC price quoted in six major fiat currencies: USD, EUR, JPY, CNY, GBP, KRW. Each tile shows the current price and 24-hour change against that currency, so it captures both BTC price action and local FX movement. Source: CoinGecko cross-currency reference rate.

How many satoshis $1 USD buys today. Sats/USD = 100,000,000 ÷ BTC price. When BTC price rises, sats-per-dollar falls — you get fewer sats per dollar, but the sats you already hold are worth more USD. Bitcoiners often frame accumulation goals in sats/USD because the number is smaller and more human-scale than USD/BTC.

Top countries and ISPs hosting Bitcoin Lightning Network nodes. Complements the Lightning Network capacity panel by showing where that capacity lives geographically and which internet service providers carry it. Tor-hosted nodes have no meaningful geography and are reported separately as a privacy signal. Source: mempool.space.

A head-to-head Bitcoin-holdings comparison of Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) — the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury — against the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) — the largest U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF. The current-holdings panel shows total BTC, market value, average cost basis, and each entity's share of mined supply. MSTR figures (including cost basis) come from CoinGecko's public-treasury endpoint, which mirrors Strategy's SEC 8-K filings. IBIT BTC held is estimated as SoSoValue's reported net assets divided by the current BTC price — an approximation, not a direct holdings disclosure. Percent-of-mined-supply uses the actual live-mined BTC count from mempool.space (about 95.5% of the 21M max cap today), which is the more honest denominator; the sub-line shows the '% of 21M max' comparison for reference. The accumulation-timeline chart's endpoints (IBIT launch 2024-01-11 and today's live tip) are exact; the monthly intermediate points are hand-curated best-effort samples from public 8-Ks and Farside / SoSoValue aggregated flow figures, refreshed quarterly.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is a composite sentiment score from 0 to 100 published daily by alternative.me. It combines volatility, momentum, social-media activity, market-cap dominance, and Google Trends signals into a single number. Below 25 signals Extreme Fear (historically an accumulation zone); above 75 signals Extreme Greed (a caution zone). Useful as a contrarian sentiment gauge but not a timing signal in isolation.

It shows the current public snapshot of the Bitcoin Lightning Network — the total BTC locked in payment channels (channel capacity), the number of nodes participating, the number of open channels, average channel size, average channels per node, and the percentage of nodes running behind Tor for privacy. Source: mempool.space's Lightning statistics endpoint, updated roughly every 10 minutes. Note that private channels and unannounced capacity are, by design, not visible in this data.

The live BTC price polls every 15 seconds. On-chain vitals (block height, hash rate, mempool, fees) refresh every 30 seconds. Fee-estimator refreshes every 30 seconds. Mempool-depth history refreshes on window change (24H / 1W / 1M). Halving math refreshes every 60 seconds. Lightning Network stats refresh every 10 minutes. Reachable-node distribution is cached for 15 minutes. Fear & Greed is a once-daily update. The chart-history timeframe respects longer cache TTLs (up to 12 hours for ALL) to stay within public rate limits.

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Each asset class uses the basis appropriate to it. Public companies use the exchange-published market capitalisation from Nasdaq's public quote API, which already incorporates shares outstanding. Bitcoin uses circulating-supply market cap — mined supply multiplied by spot price — with mined supply derived exactly from the current block height and Bitcoin's fixed issuance schedule. Gold and silver use the convention every public tracker uses: every tonne ever mined, marked at spot price. The ranking refreshes every 10 minutes.

Both are deliberate exclusions. ETFs and index funds such as SPY, VOO or QQQ hold the very companies already ranked individually in the list, so including both would count the same underlying value twice. Private companies such as SpaceX have no live market price — any figure quoted for them is a stale secondary-market mark from the last funding round, not a market quote. Trackers that include ETFs and private valuations will therefore show a slightly different ordering, and Bitcoin's rank may differ by a position or two as a result.

Bitcoin currently sits inside the top dozen assets globally by market capitalisation, ahead of most mega-cap technology companies and behind gold, which remains several times larger. The live ranking is shown in the Top 21 Assets module, which also expresses every other asset as a multiple of Bitcoin's market cap. Because Bitcoin trades 24/7 while equities do not, Bitcoin's relative position can shift over a weekend even when nothing else moves.

Returns are price returns, split-adjusted, and dividends are not reinvested. Equity prices come from Nasdaq's daily closes, Bitcoin from Bitstamp's daily BTC/USD candles, and the benchmarks from the S&P 500 index level and gold. Every row is anchored to the same start and end date so the comparison is like-for-like. Dividends are excluded on purpose: Bitcoin, gold and an index level have no dividend to reinvest, so price return is the only basis on which all of these assets are genuinely comparable. The dividend-paying names in the table are low-yield growth companies, so the effect is small — but it does mean total-return figures published elsewhere will read slightly higher.

The comparison universe is intentionally narrow: it is the small set of publicly traded names that actually kept pace with Bitcoin over a decade, plus the two benchmarks most investors measure against — the S&P 500 and gold. It is not a screen of the whole market, and it is selected with hindsight, which flatters every name in it including Bitcoin. Assets without a full history over the selected window are dropped rather than shown over a shorter period, since a partial-window return is not comparable to a full one. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

It ranks the assets you select by their total return in each calendar year, best at the top and worst at the bottom, for the last ten years. The point of the layout is the reshuffling: an asset near the top one year is routinely near the bottom the next, and that instability is invisible in a single ten-year number. The final column is the annualised rate over the whole span, which is the figure that actually compounds. You choose which assets appear using the Assets picker, up to sixteen at a time.

Total return — income and dividends are reinvested and splits are adjusted. This differs deliberately from the Bitcoin vs. Everything Else table above it, which uses price return. Total return is required here because the map includes bonds, credit and REITs, whose return is largely or entirely income: US Treasuries fell in price over the last decade while delivering a positive total return, so a price-only grid would report a loss that no holder experienced. Figures come from adjusted daily closes, with Bitcoin taken from Bitstamp's BTC/USD daily closes.

Asset classes are represented by the exchange-traded fund that tracks them — the S&P 500 via SPY, gold via GLD, long Treasuries via TLT, cash via the 1-3 month T-bill fund BIL, and so on. An index level is not something anyone can actually own, and several total-return indices are licensed products with no public data feed. The fund is the honest answer to 'what would a dollar in this asset class have done', because it is what a dollar could have done. Each row therefore reads a fund fee below the index itself; the fee for every proxy is listed in the footnote beneath the grid.

It is an equal-weight basket of Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, NVIDIA, Meta and Tesla, rebalanced back to equal weight at the start of each calendar year. It is computed from the seven constituents rather than taken from any fund, and it is not tradeable. Equal weight is used rather than buy-and-hold because a buy-and-hold basket drifts into whichever name ran hardest and ends the decade as a NVIDIA tracker. A year is only shown when all seven constituents have a full year of history.

Because the asset did not exist for that whole calendar year. Coinbase listed in April 2021, Palantir in September 2020, and Ethereum began trading in 2015 but only has a full calendar year from 2018. Rather than fill those columns with a part-year figure dressed up as an annual return, the cell is left empty and the column is simply shorter. The picker labels these rows with the first year they cover, and the annualised column for them is calculated over their own span, not the full ten years.

No. This dashboard is an information tool, not investment advice. Nothing on this page constitutes a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, digital asset, or financial product. Bitcoin is volatile and can lose value. Consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.

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