§ Network · Hash rate
Hash rate & difficulty
How much computation guards the chain — and what it’s about to cost to keep up.
Network hash rate
882 EH/s
of computation, every second, securing the network.
Last year
Current difficulty
127 T
Next retarget
+0.1%
estimated, in ~12 days
The network is 13% through the current two-week epoch, with 1,763 blocks to go. If the pace holds, difficulty retargets +0.1% — miners are arriving faster than the ten-minute target, so the puzzle gets harder.
Hash rate is the total guessing power miners point at the chain; difficulty is the dial the protocol turns every 2,016 blocks to keep new blocks landing about ten minutes apart. Rising hash rate is usually read as conviction — more capital committed to securing the ledger. As ever: numbers, not signals.
Source: mempool.space · hash rate sampled daily