Market & network dashboard
The numbers that decide whether a lottery miner is worth running: what Bitcoin is worth, how much competition you are up against, and how the reward changes over time.
Bitcoin
Fear & Greed Index
-7 vs yesterdayHigh greed has historically coincided with local tops and high hardware prices; deep fear is when second-hand miners get cheap.
Bitcoin network
Difficulty going up is bad news for miners: the same hardware earns a smaller share of each block. It retargets every 2,016 blocks, about every two weeks.
Halving countdown
At the next halving the block reward drops by half, which halves the expected value of every solo lottery ticket overnight. It does not change your electricity bill.
Transaction fees
Fees are part of a block's payout. When the mempool is busy, the reward for finding a block is meaningfully larger than the subsidy alone.
Market
| Asset | Price | 24h | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC Bitcoin | $82,729 | -1.85% | $1.66T |
| ETH Ethereum | $2,565 | -2.09% | $313.22B |
| SOL Solana | $115.06 | -3.16% | $67.79B |
| LTC Litecoin | $64.35 | -4.96% | $5B |
| DOGE Dogecoin | $0.0872 | -3.64% | $13.63B |
| XMR Monero | $558.07 | -0.46% | $10.5B |
Latest headlines
Mining and hardware stories first, then the wider crypto market.
- CoinDesk
Bitcoin loans are paying for tuition and working capital, not just trades, lenders say
Bitcoin-backed lending is evolving into a mainstream source of credit, with borrowers using BTC to access liquidity without selling.
- Cointelegraph
Crypto’s heavy backing of Republicans alienated Democrats: Cuomo
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo urged the crypto industry to balance its support for Democrats and Republicans if they want federal crypto legislation passed.
- The Block
‘Don’t rush anything’: Vitalik Buterin warns against hasty wallet migrations amid growing AI threats
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that the crypto industry should take risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously.
- Cointelegraph
Crypto must cement adoption to withstand US policy shifts: Canton CEO
Canton CEO Yuval Rooz compared blockchain adoption to Uber and Airbnb, arguing that widespread adoption could help insulate it from potential policy reversals.
- CoinDesk
Ethereum’s Glamsterdam test runs near 200 million gas per block after upgrade
The Sepolia rehearsal has raised its processing budget more than threefold, but sampled blocks used less than half that allowance.
- CoinDesk
Bitcoin breaks below $83,000 as oil jumps on Iran strike-plan report
Bitcoin has slipped under a level FxPro says opens a "quick path to $80,000." Brent crude climbed above $102 and pushed Treasury yields back toward their highest since 2002.
Why these numbers matter to a solo miner
Difficulty is your competition
Your odds of finding a block are your hashrate divided by everyone else's. When difficulty rises, your odds fall by the same proportion — and it has risen relentlessly for a decade.
Price sets the prize
A block is worth the subsidy plus fees. That is a fixed amount of BTC, so the fiat value of winning tracks the Bitcoin price directly, while your electricity bill does not.
The halving cuts the prize in half
Every 210,000 blocks the subsidy halves. Your costs stay the same. Factor it in before buying hardware you plan to run for years.
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