The Bitcoin Blockchain
Understand the Bitcoin blockchain — how transactions are confirmed and blocks are created.
On this page you'll find information and various tools related to the Bitcoin blockchain.
Still early!
To get a sense of how early in Bitcoin's history we are, you can open this link with some statistics and graphics. Bitcoin measures time in block height, and each block takes about 10 minutes on average. You can see which epoch we're in out of Bitcoin's 33 epochs in total.
Mempool.space is a great tool for keeping an eye on activity on the Bitcoin blockchain. You can see pending transactions, fee levels, and explore blocks and addresses.
Timechain Calendar
Timechain Calendar is another great tool that also gives you good information about Bitcoin.
More tools
Below is a list of more good tools you can explore.
