Thursday, November 5, 2026
Archived at the end of the day (US Eastern). Price, the lock, the Knots fight and what people are saying.
Price$322.23 ▼ 1.0%
Block980,704
Hash rate46.5 PH/s
Next difficulty+3.3% est.
🔒 The first coinbase lock released at block 979,920. Live unlock tracker
What changed
Lock proposals still open
- #429 T.Softfork: Long coinbase maturity (part 2 of 3): extend from 45 days to 1 year 1 approval
- #476 Softfork: 1-year rolling coinbase maturity on top of #468, no cliff, independent of RDTS 1 approval
- #478 Softfork: 180-day rolling maturity from 973440 built on #468 1 approval
- #434 T.Softfork: Release long coinbase maturity in four periods 0 approvals
- #469 Softfork: Continue RDTS, with a rolling 40320-block (~280-day) coinbase maturity (builds on #467) 0 approvals
- #480 45 Day Maturity Softfork - Permanent 0 approvals
- #482 Cover the historical coinbase maturity window on regtest 0 approvals
- #490 Experimental Dynamic Coinbase Maturity 0 approvals
- #509 End testnet4 `long_coinbase_maturity` at block 154801 instead of 158111 0 approvals
Stories and takes
- Where Did Blockstream Find $50 Million? Bitcoin University