Bitcoin difficulty adjustment estimate: progress through the 2016-block period, ...
https://saylorinnovations.com/api/explorer/bitcoin/difficulty-adjustmentOverview
Bitcoin difficulty adjustment estimate: progress through the 2016-block period, average block time, projected change and expected retarget time.
Protocol
x402
Price
$0.01
Payment Asset
USD Coin
Payment Network
eip155:8453
Category
uncategorized
Provider
Saylor Innovations Data Desk
Source
bazaar
Indexed
2026-10-21 04:24:45
Health
Status
healthy
Latency (p50)
471ms
Uptime (30d)
100.0%
Reliability Score
95/100
Last Checked
2026-10-28 15:23:43
Last Healthy
2026-10-28 15:23:43
Consecutive Failures
0
x402 Payment Validation
Payment Requirements
Valid
Asset Verified
Known USDC
Facilitator
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Input Schema
{
"method": "GET",
"type": "http"
}
Output Schema
{
"example": {
"avg_block_time_seconds_this_period": 569.5,
"block_height": 972405,
"blocks_into_period": 693,
"blocks_remaining": 1323,
"chain": "bitcoin",
"current_difficulty": 140577680051919.6,
"estimated_hours_until_retarget": 208.8,
"estimated_retarget_time": "2026-10-29T19:31:05.545Z",
"note": "Bitcoin retargets every 2016 blocks to bring the average block time back to 10 minutes. This projects the change if the rest of the period runs at the pace seen so far (capped at 4x either way) and dates the retarget the same way. Early in a period the estimate is noisy.",
"period_start_height": 971712,
"progress_pct": 34.38,
"projected_difficulty": 148118995934390,
"projected_difficulty_change_pct": 5.36,
"source": "Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC (public node)"
},
"type": "json"
}
Recent Health Checks
| Time | Status | HTTP | Latency | Error |
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| 2026-10-28 15:23:43 | healthy | 402 | 471ms | |
| 2026-10-28 14:18:22 | healthy | 402 | 517ms | |
| 2026-10-28 05:44:15 | healthy | 402 | 446ms | |
| 2026-10-28 04:46:14 | healthy | 402 | 384ms | |
| 2026-10-28 03:52:21 | healthy | 402 | 354ms | |
| 2026-10-28 02:53:12 | healthy | 402 | 420ms | |
| 2026-10-28 01:48:46 | healthy | 402 | 364ms | |
| 2026-10-28 00:41:46 | healthy | 402 | 353ms | |
| 2026-10-27 23:45:27 | healthy | 402 | 363ms | |
| 2026-10-27 22:59:34 | healthy | 402 | 387ms | |
| 2026-10-27 21:48:18 | healthy | 402 | 2015ms | |
| 2026-10-27 20:33:20 | healthy | 402 | 525ms | |
| 2026-10-27 19:28:50 | healthy | 402 | 515ms | |
| 2026-10-27 17:57:52 | healthy | 402 | 787ms | |
| 2026-10-26 14:55:23 | healthy | 402 | 660ms | |
| 2026-10-26 00:02:51 | healthy | 402 | 1304ms |