Plain-English explanations for everything on the dashboard — what each number measures, where it comes from, and why it matters.
The latest USD spot price of one bitcoin, averaged across the major exchanges CoinGecko tracks. The 24-hour change underneath shows how price has moved since this time yesterday.
Price × circulating supply. With ~19.8M BTC in circulation, market cap is roughly 19.8M × current price. The "Rank" tag shows where Bitcoin sits among all crypto assets by market cap (it has held #1 since inception).
Total USD-equivalent volume traded across exchanges over the last 24 hours.
The highest price BTC has ever traded at. The percentage shows how far the current price is from that peak (negative means below).
Spot price of gold per troy ounce, sourced via PAX Gold (PAXG) — a 1:1 physically-backed gold token that tracks spot gold within a few basis points. Standard keyless way to pull a gold price client-side without an API key. The 24-hour change shows how the metal has moved since this time yesterday.
Gold price × ~6.835 billion troy ounces of above-ground gold. The supply estimate comes from the World Gold Council (~212,582 tonnes × 32,150.7 troy oz/tonne) and updates slowly enough that a fixed constant works fine. As of 2026, this number is in the $25–30 trillion range.
The BTC price required for Bitcoin's market cap to match gold's, holding both supplies constant. Calculated as `gold market cap ÷ circulating BTC supply`.
How many times higher BTC's current price would need to be to match gold's market cap. Computed as `parity price ÷ current BTC price`. Mirrors the same metric in the debt section, just anchored to gold's market cap instead of US debt.
How many days, on average, the US currently takes to add another trillion dollars of debt. Computed by querying TreasuryDirect for today's debt total and the debt total ~365 days ago, then extrapolating the daily growth rate. The subtitle shows the implied annual pace in trillions per year. As of 2026, the US adds roughly $1T every 110–130 days.
The total US public debt outstanding, sourced from the Treasury Department's official "Debt to the Penny" feed. Updated each business day. As of 2026, this number sits near $40 trillion and grows by roughly $1 trillion every ~120 days.
Total US debt ÷ circulating Bitcoin supply. Answers a thought experiment: if every existing bitcoin had to absorb the entire US debt, how much would each one be worth? Pure arithmetic — no claim that this will happen, just a way to express debt scale in BTC terms.
How many times higher BTC's current price would need to be for one bitcoin to equal `debt ÷ supply`. Live ratio — falls when BTC rallies, rises when debt grows or BTC drops.
The number of blocks that have been mined since the Bitcoin network started in January 2009. Each block is a batch of transactions added to the chain roughly every 10 minutes. Height 1,000,000 is expected around the year 2034.
The mempool ("memory pool") is the global queue of transactions that have been broadcast but haven't been included in a block yet. The two numbers measure it differently:
Fees are paid in satoshis per virtual byte (sat/vB). A typical transaction is ~140 vB, so a 10 sat/vB fee means roughly 1,400 sats (~$1 at $70k BTC) for that transaction.
Bitcoin auto-tunes how hard it is to mine a block every 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks). If blocks have been coming faster than 10 minutes, difficulty goes up. Slower, it goes down. This metric shows the projected change at the next adjustment and the ETA.
The total computational power miners are pointing at the Bitcoin network, measured in EH/s — exahashes per second. One exahash = 1018 hashes. This is mempool.space's current estimate rather than a fixed-window average, so expect it to wobble slightly between refreshes. As of 2026, the network runs ~900+ EH/s.
How many BTC have been mined to date, out of the hard-capped 21 million. Approximately 450 new BTC enter circulation per day (post the April 2024 halving), and that rate halves every ~4 years.
A composite 0–100 score blending volatility, market momentum, social sentiment, dominance, and Google Trends.
BTC closing price for the last 90 days. Daily granularity.
Distribution of pending transactions across fee buckets, measured in vMB (virtual megabytes). Tall bars in the high-fee buckets mean lots of users are willing to pay up — congestion.
Every 60 seconds automatically, plus you can hit the Refresh button anytime. The "Updated" timestamp shows the last successful pull.
The dashboard pulls from four independent public APIs. If one rate-limits or has a momentary outage, that section will show a dash or stale value while the others keep working. The status bar at the top tells you how many sources reported successfully.
Not really. The Fear & Greed index has shown some contrarian signal historically. Hash rate trends are more useful for long-term security/miner-health analysis than short-term price calls. None of this is financial advice.
The smallest unit of bitcoin — one hundred-millionth of a BTC. 100,000,000 sats = 1 BTC. Fees are quoted in sats because most transactions cost a fraction of a cent's worth of BTC.
Bitcoin's SegWit upgrade lets transactions discount their witness data. Virtual bytes (vB) is the discounted size used for fee calculation; raw bytes is the literal byte count. Miners pack blocks up to 4 million weight units, which works out to ~1 MB of vsize.
It isn't measured — it's estimated. There's no way to count how many hashes miners around the world are attempting, so the figure is inferred from how quickly recent blocks were found relative to the current difficulty. Because block intervals are random (anywhere from seconds to over an hour), any estimate carries noise, and the number will wobble between refreshes even when nothing has actually changed. Treat it as a trend indicator, not a precise reading.
All endpoints are keyless and public. Nothing about you or your activity is sent anywhere — the dashboard is pure client-side JavaScript talking to public APIs.