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.

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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