Bitcoin Blockspace
What is waiting, what inclusion currently costs, and how much of the miner reward came from people competing for blockspace. Live network state, not a forecast.
Sep 3, 2026, 08:43 AM UTC
Tip height
965,287
Latest block returned by the public node.
Queue
41.7blocks
41.7 vMB waiting
Transactions waiting
82,861
0.0858 BTC in offered fees
Next-block fee
2sat/vB
Estimator, not a guarantee.
Miner fee share
0.37%
Across 15 recent blocks
Fee ladder
What the estimator sees now
sat/vB
Pressure reading
congested
The queue is deep and near-term inclusion is competitive. A mempool is local to a node, so another node can see a slightly different queue.
Recent block interval
7m 07s
Average across the returned block sample.
Full blocks
100%
Weight at or above 3.9 million units.
Fees per block
0.0117BTC
Recent sample average.
Transactions per block
5,387
Recent sample average.
Receipt: mempool.space REST API ↗
Live · 15-block sample · observed Sep 3, 2026, 08:43 AM UTC
Why it matters
Bitcoin does not sell “transactions per second.” It sells scarce, ordered settlement space. The queue shows demand for that space; the fee share shows how much miners earned from users rather than new issuance.