Current Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Bitcoin Cash difficulty in one table: how it is about to change and when it retargets. Data comes from RuPool's own full nodes and refreshes every minute.
| Coin | Current difficulty | Change | Retarget | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin BTC · 2016 blocks | 134.82T | no forecast | 1,904 blocks left · ~Nov 28, 2026, 04:43 UTC | Details |
| Litecoin LTC · 2016 blocks | 94.73M | +0.82% retarget forecast | 287 blocks left · ~Nov 15, 2026, 11:15 UTC | Details |
| Dogecoin DOGE · DigiShield | 43.02M | +2.13% 24-hour average | every block · DigiShield | Details |
| Bitcoin Cash BCH · ASERT | 502.96B | -0.45% 24-hour average | every block · ASERT | Details |
Mining difficulty is a number that tells you how much work it takes on average to find a block. Every network tunes it to its total hashrate so that blocks keep arriving at the planned pace: new hardware comes online and difficulty goes up, miners switch off and it comes down.
For a miner, network difficulty is the biggest external factor in profitability after the coin price. At a constant hashrate, your share of blocks, and with it your income in coins, is inversely proportional to difficulty. On an FPPS pool such as RuPool this shows up directly: the reward per share follows difficulty.
The coins in the table above use two families of algorithms. The first is epoch-based: difficulty stays fixed for a set number of blocks and is then recalculated once, based on how quickly the epoch went by. The date of the next adjustment is known in advance, and its size can be forecast from the average block time.
The second adjusts at every block. The network keeps nudging difficulty based on recent block times or on how far the chain has drifted from an ideal schedule, so there is no single next adjustment to wait for. For these coins the daily average and its trend say more than the instantaneous value.
Difficulty is a relative measure. It is tied to the network's hash function and to its target block time. A SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost hardware very different amounts of work, so the numbers for coins on different algorithms aren't comparable. Even on the same algorithm, a network with one-minute blocks and one with ten-minute blocks need different hashrates at the same difficulty.
What does compare across coins is the trend: how many percent difficulty moved over a day, a week or an epoch, and how that stacks up against your own hashrate and the coin price. Each coin page explains how that network adjusts difficulty and shows its full history.
A forecast only makes sense for epoch-based adjustment: you know how many blocks remain until the change, and the average block time lets you estimate its size. Coins that adjust at every block change difficulty continuously, so their pages show the daily average and its trend instead.
Not directly. The difficulty value depends on the hash function and the target block time, so a bigger number for one coin doesn't mean it is harder to mine than a coin with a smaller one. Compare percentage changes and the income your hardware actually earns.
All else equal, falling difficulty means more coins and rising difficulty means fewer. But difficulty rarely moves on its own: it drops when miners leave because of a weaker price or expensive power, and rises when mining becomes more profitable. That is why it is worth reading together with the price.
From the full nodes RuPool runs for its own operation. Values refresh every minute, and no third-party services are used for this data.