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Bitcoin Mining Statistics (2026)
Bitcoin’s network hashrate averaged 945 EH/s over the 30 days to October 1, 2026, which is 2.3 times the level three years earlier and 28% below the 1,306 EH/s daily record set on October 25, 2025. Miners earned about $38.5M in rewards across the latest 144 blocks, roughly one day, and transaction fees were only 0.8% of that. See also bitcoin halving statistics.
Key takeaways
- Hashrate averaged 945 EH/s over the 30 days to October 1, 2026, 8.7% below the same window a year earlier.
- The daily hashrate record is 1,306 EH/s, set on October 25, 2025.
- Mining difficulty adjusted 25 times in the past 12 months, 14 down and 11 up, and now sits 14.9% below its peak.
- Miners earned about $38.5M in the latest 144 blocks, valued at the October 1, 2026 Coinbase close of $84,760 per bitcoin.
- Fees supplied 0.83% of block rewards in that window; the 3.125 BTC subsidy supplied the rest.
- The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that U.S. bitcoin mining used 25 to 91 TWh, or 0.6% to 2.3% of U.S. electricity demand, in 2023.
What is bitcoin’s hashrate today?
Bitcoin’s network hashrate was 929 EH/s on October 1, 2026, the latest full day in mempool.space data, and averaged 945 EH/s over the prior 30 days. One exahash per second is 1018 hashes per second. Single days ranged from 826 to 1,088 EH/s in that window, so the 30-day average is the steadier guide.
1. Latest full-day hashrate: 929 EH/s
mempool.space’s daily average for October 1, 2026 is 928.6 EH/s. The 30-day average ending that day is 944.6 EH/s. October 2, 2026 is excluded because its day was still in progress at the data pull (WealthyBud data · daily average hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
2. Real-time hashrate was 992 EH/s at the data pull
mempool.space’s real-time estimate at the October 2, 2026 snapshot is 991.6 EH/s, 6.8% above the latest full-day average. The two readings use different windows, so small gaps are normal (WealthyBud data · real-time hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
3. Hashrate is an estimate, not a count
Nobody reports hashes directly. mempool.space describes its hashrate endpoint as returning “network-wide hashrate and difficulty figures,” including a real-time hashrate and “historical daily average hashrates,” per the mempool.space API documentation. Daily values move with block-finding luck as well as with real hardware changes.
How fast has hashrate grown?
Hashrate has grown about 553 times in ten years, from 1.7 EH/s to 945 EH/s on a 30-day average, a compound rate near 88% a year. Growth has stalled recently: the average is 8.7% below its level a year earlier and 28% under the record.
4. Ten-year growth: about 553x
The 30-day average rose from 1.71 EH/s in the window ending October 1, 2016 to 944.6 EH/s now, a compound growth rate of 88% a year (WealthyBud data · 30-day average hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
5. Five-year growth: 6.9x; three-year growth: 2.3x
Against 137 EH/s five years earlier and 407 EH/s three years earlier, the current 30-day average is 6.9 and 2.3 times higher (WealthyBud data · 30-day average hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
6. Year over year: −8.7%
The 30-day average was 1,034 EH/s a year before October 1, 2026 and is 945 EH/s now. The daily record of 1,306 EH/s came on October 25, 2025, and the current average sits 27.7% under it (WealthyBud data · 30-day average hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
7. Hashrate at the last three halvings: 1.5, 116 and 615 EH/s
On each halving date the 30-day average was higher than at the one before, and the network now runs at 1.5 times its April 2024 level. The halving article covers what changed for miners (WealthyBud data · 30-day average hashrate · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
| Milestone | Date | Hashrate (EH/s) | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halving 2016 | July 9, 2016 | 1.5 | 0.2 T |
| Halving 2020 | May 11, 2020 | 116 | 16.1 T |
| Halving 2024 | April 20, 2024 | 615 | 86.4 T |
| Oct 1, 2023 | October 1, 2023 | 407 | 57.1 T |
| Oct 1, 2025 | October 1, 2025 | 1,034 | 150.8 T |
| Record day | October 25, 2025 | 1,306 | 146.7 T |
| Latest | October 1, 2026 | 945 | 132.8 T |
How does mining difficulty adjust?
Every 2,016 blocks, about two weeks, the network compares how long those blocks took with the two-week target and resets difficulty to bring block time back to ten minutes. In the past 12 months it adjusted 25 times, averaging −0.37%, with single changes from −11.2% to +14.7%.
8. The rule: a retarget every 2,016 blocks
The guide says that every 2,016 blocks the network calculates the time taken to generate those blocks, against an ideal of 1,209,600 seconds (two weeks), and changes difficulty proportionally, by as much as 300% up or 75% down in one step, per the Bitcoin Project developer guide.
9. 25 adjustments in 12 months: 14 down, 11 up
Counting every retarget dated after October 2, 2025 through September 19, 2026, difficulty fell 14 times and rose 11 times, with a mean change of −0.37%. Changes are stored in mempool.space as ratios and shown here as percentages (WealthyBud data · difficulty adjustments · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
10. Largest moves in the past year: −11.2% and +14.7%
The sharpest cut came on February 7, 2026 and the sharpest rise on February 19, 2026 (WealthyBud data · difficulty adjustments · mempool.space · October 2, 2026). mempool.space lists these in its difficulty adjustments record.
11. Difficulty is 14.9% below its October 2025 peak
Difficulty reached 156.0 trillion on October 29, 2025. It now stands at 132.8 trillion (WealthyBud data · current difficulty · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
12. Largest moves since 2012: +46.0% and −27.9%
The biggest single increase since January 2012 was on October 26, 2013 and the biggest decrease on July 3, 2021 (WealthyBud data · 401 adjustments since 2012 · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
- Difficulty is 132.8 trillion after the September 19, 2026 adjustment of +4.16%.
- The network made 25 adjustments in the 12 months to October 2, 2026: 11 increases and 14 decreases.
- The average change in those adjustments was −0.37%, so the typical two-week step is small.
- Difficulty peaked at 156.0 trillion on October 29, 2025 and is now 14.9% lower.
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How much do miners earn per day?
Miners collected 453.76 BTC across the latest 144 blocks, roughly one day, worth about $38.5M at the October 1, 2026 Coinbase close of $84,760. That works out to $267,085 per block. The 3.125 BTC subsidy supplies almost all of it.
13. Latest 144 blocks paid 453.76 BTC, about $38.5M
Blocks 969,475 to 969,618 paid 453.756 BTC in subsidy and fees. Valued at $84,759.64, the Coinbase daily close on October 1, 2026, that is $38.5M. This is WealthyBud’s calculation, not a reported revenue figure (WealthyBud data · 144 blocks · mempool.space and Coinbase via FRED · October 2, 2026).
14. Subsidy is 3.125 BTC per block, $38.1M per 144 blocks
After the April 20, 2024 halving the subsidy fell to 3.125 BTC. Across 144 blocks that is 450 BTC. The next halving falls at block 1,050,000, 80,382 blocks after the chain tip at 969,618 (WealthyBud data · subsidy schedule · mempool.space · October 2, 2026).
15. Bitcoin’s price is 29.7% lower than a year earlier
The Coinbase close was $84,760 on October 1, 2026 against $120,621 a year before. The subsidy in bitcoin terms is fixed between halvings, so dollar revenue per block moves with price (WealthyBud data · Coinbase daily close via FRED · October 2, 2026).
16. Revenue per EH/s: about $40,715 a day
Dividing the $38.5M of latest-day revenue by the 945 EH/s 30-day average hashrate gives about $40,715 per EH/s per day. This rough hashprice ignores power, hardware and pool costs, so it is not profit (WealthyBud data · 144 blocks and 30-day hashrate · mempool.space and Coinbase via FRED · October 2, 2026).
What share of rewards comes from fees?
Transaction fees supplied 3.76 of the 453.76 BTC miners earned in the latest 144 blocks, a 0.83% share. The remaining 99.17% came from the 3.125 BTC subsidy. Fees are worth about $318,338 a day at the October 1, 2026 price, so subsidy still drives miner income.
17. Fees are 0.83% of block rewards
Across blocks 969,475 to 969,618, fees totaled 3.756 BTC ($318,338) and the subsidy 450 BTC ($38.1M). One 144-block window is a snapshot; fee share varies from day to day (WealthyBud data · 144 blocks · mempool.space and Coinbase via FRED · October 2, 2026).
18. Average fee: 638 sats, about $0.54, per transaction
The 588,374 transactions in those blocks paid 375,576,848 sats in total, an average of 638 sats each, or 4,086 transactions per block. The mean hides a wide spread between cheap and urgent transactions (WealthyBud data · 144 blocks · mempool.space and Coinbase via FRED · October 2, 2026).
How much electricity does bitcoin mining use?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that bitcoin mining based in the United States used 25 to 91 TWh in 2023, equal to 0.6% to 2.3% of U.S. electricity demand. The range is wide because EIA built it from Cambridge University model estimates and an assumed U.S. share. Hashrate has risen 1.8 times since EIA published.
19. EIA: 25 to 91 TWh, or 0.6% to 2.3% of U.S. demand in 2023
In its February 1, 2024 analysis, EIA says it assumed the U.S. share of global mining stays near 38% and estimates U.S. bitcoin mining at 25 TWh to 91 TWh. It compares that with 3,900 TWh of total U.S. electricity demand in 2023, per the EIA Today in Energy report.
20. Cambridge estimates global use at 67 to 240 TWh for 2023
EIA reports that the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index put global bitcoin mining at 67 TWh to 240 TWh in 2023, with a point estimate of 120 TWh, in the same EIA report. EIA labels its own U.S. figures preliminary.
What this means for bitcoin investors
For network watchers, read hashrate on a 30-day average. The current average is 945 EH/s against a record of 1,306 EH/s, and single days swing widely.
For miner-stock investors, revenue per block tracks the bitcoin price while the subsidy stays fixed. Revenue per EH/s is about $40,715 a day before costs. Compare it with the economics in bitcoin treasury company statistics.
For long-term holders, fees are 0.8% of rewards, so security spending depends on the subsidy and the price. The next halving cuts the subsidy again; see Bitcoin and bitcoin volatility statistics for price context. The bitcoin statistics overview and the crypto hub cover the wider market.
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