Bitcoin, right now

I have been a Bitcoiner since 2017 and a software engineer for longer than that. I run a Bitcoin Core node from a closet in my apartment in Bangkok, and I have spent more evenings than I would like to admit watching mempool depth and block templates scroll past on a small screen. The honest reason this dashboard exists is that most people who care about Bitcoin do not, and probably will never, run their own full node — and the public dashboards that aggregate the same data are usually cluttered with altcoins, social-feed noise, or hype. I wanted a paper-clear page that respects your time. That is what this is.

What this dashboard actually is

This is a curated, ad-supported public good. It reads from the same primary sources a full node would surface — block headers, mempool state, difficulty, fee estimates — and presents them in eight independent dimensions, each with its own deep page. There is no proprietary data here. There is no opinion baked into the numbers. If you want to verify any of it, every widget links back to the upstream source: mempool.space, bitnodes.io, coingecko.com, and Blockstream’s public infrastructure. Don’t trust, verify — even me.

Why an aggregator beats no node at all

The Bitcoin whitepaper (bitcoin.pdf) describes a system where each participant validates the chain themselves. That is the gold standard. If you are making a transaction worth a meaningful fraction of your savings, you should run a node, or at least connect a wallet to a node you trust. But for the casual question — what is the mempool looking like, are we near a halving, how is hash rate trending — opening a node UI is overkill. You want a page that loads in under a second and tells you the truth. That is the niche this hub fills. We are not a replacement for sovereignty; we are a quick-glance tool for the 99% of moments when you don’t need full custody of the data.

The eight dimensions, briefly

• Price. Spot price across major exchanges, sourced from CoinGecko. No predictions. The number is the number.
• Mempool. Pending transactions waiting for inclusion, fee bands, and depth. This is the single best signal for “is now a good time to send.”
• Blocks. Latest block height, recent block sizes, and miner identification. The chain’s heartbeat.
• Difficulty. The retarget that keeps blocks landing every ~10 minutes on average. Watch the percentage drift between adjustments.
• Mining / hashrate. Estimated network hash rate and the security budget it represents. The most-watched lagging indicator of network health.
• Halving. Time and blocks until the next subsidy cut. Predictable, programmatic, and the cleanest data point on the entire chart.
• Lightning. Public channel capacity, node count, and routing health for the second-layer payment network.
• Nodes. Reachable node count and geographic distribution from Bitnodes. This is the censorship-resistance number.

Editorial stance

This site is Bitcoin-only. No altcoins, no tokens, no “crypto.” That is not a hype position; it is a focus position — Bitcoin is the only chain whose monetary properties I find defensible, and mixing it with anything else dilutes the signal. There are also no price targets here, no “stock-to-flow says X” charts, no countdowns to imaginary numbers. The dashboard shows what is happening on the network right now, with as little editorial voice between you and the data as I can manage.

If a number on this page ever conflicts with the upstream source, the upstream source is right. Click through. Verify. That’s the point.