The record, 12⁠–⁠18 October 2026

18 Oct 2026 · Method

The data job keeps the wallet El Salvador discloses level, and files a credit of two bitcoin or more

From this entry’s day the Gazette’s data job keeps El Salvador’s disclosed wallet level: it adds each block that moved the balance to the series on Holdings, with no entry in this log and no person reading the new rows first. It also files a fifth thing by itself: a block that credits two bitcoin or more, as an entry under the desk El Salvador’s wallet, with the job’s mark. A read that finds a debit of 0.01 BTC or more writes nothing and waits for a person, under the rule printed on the method page. On Holdings the wallet’s section gains a table of the credits of two bitcoin or more, to the satoshi. The wallet’s download gains one field, filed_by, for each block’s step: data-job or person where an entry names the block, and nothing for every other step. Its JSON file and its CSV file change, and so do their checksums. The claims floor’s row for El Salvador stays a person’s to move. The blocks added on this day, to block 971,928, were read by a person. The statement on the editorial page and on the method page now names the two series the job keeps level; the node counts were the first.

18 Oct 2026 · Company treasuries

Strategy advanced to 848,250 BTC as of October 11

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Strategy's October 13 8-K reports 848,250 BTC as of October 11, with 250 bought from October 5 to October 11. The row had stood at 848,000 as of October 4, and the selected total moves from 1,044,321 to 1,044,571 BTC.

18 Oct 2026 · Claims floor

Strategy's filing moved the floor to 11.2641 percent at block 971,944

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The corporate category rises by 250 BTC to 1,044,571, so the disclosed floor is 2,264,077 BTC, 11.2641 percent of the 20,099,828.125 BTC issued at block 971,944, against 11.2656 percent at block 970,370. The ETF and state rows are unchanged; the height moved to the chain tip so that no counted holding is dated after it.

17 Oct 2026 · Method

The data job keeps the node software counts level

From this entry’s day the Gazette’s data job keeps the node software series level: it adds one row for each of KIT’s snapshot days, at most three a run, with no entry in this log and no person reading the new rows first. It files nothing for this series: counts move every day, and none is an event. A day the reader’s own checks refuse is not written and waits for a person, and no day is added until then, under the rule printed on the method page. The snapshot days from 1 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 were added by a person on this day; the snapshot of 16 October 2026 is not recorded, because 69 of the 2,700 peers it saw open in a day announced no readable software, over the rule’s 2 percent. The statement on the method and editorial pages now names the series the job keeps level.

17 Oct 2026 · Difficulty

Difficulty rose 5.92 percent at block 971,712

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Difficulty rose 5.92 percent at block 971,712 on 16 October 2026, to 140,577,680,051,919.62 from 132,716,002,350,731.27. On the subsidy alone, 3.125 BTC a block at that height, one TH/s earns an expected 44.72 sats a day. The retarget's nBits, 17020093, follow by the consensus rule from period 481's first and last block times, and the block's hash was matched on a second operator.

14 Oct 2026 · Pool block share

One-week sample re-read; the leaders' share rose to 64.12 percent

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The top three labels, Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool, hold 681 of 1,062 blocks in the one-week window, 64.12 percent, against 63.75 percent on October 7. The one-month window is 62.65 percent and the three-month 60.73 percent. The previous snapshot and the endpoint receipts are preserved beside it.