Current Bitcoin Cash difficulty and how it moves day by day. Difficulty is recalculated every block. Data comes from RuPool's own full nodes and refreshes every minute.
490.05B
Exact value: 490,053,554,362
489.97B
-2.01%
Lower than the previous 24 hours: miner revenue went up
Difficulty is recalculated every block (ASERT), so there is no retarget forecast.
Average block time, last 24 hours
10:22
target 10:00Network hashrate (estimate)
3.39 EH/s
Averaging window
144
blocks · about 24 hours| Date (UTC) | Block | Daily average | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2026 | 977,184 | 500.21B | +1.85% |
| Nov 12, 2026 | 977,040 | 491.11B | -3.51% |
| Nov 11, 2026 | 976,896 | 508.99B | +0.12% |
| Nov 10, 2026 | 976,752 | 508.4B | -2.37% |
| Nov 9, 2026 | 976,608 | 520.75B | -3.14% |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 976,464 | 537.61B | -2.69% |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 976,320 | 552.49B | +3.10% |
| Nov 6, 2026 | 976,176 | 535.87B | +3.30% |
| Nov 5, 2026 | 976,032 | 518.75B | -1.43% |
| Nov 4, 2026 | 975,888 | 526.29B | -2.80% |
| Nov 3, 2026 | 975,744 | 541.45B | +2.89% |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 975,600 | 526.22B | +0.87% |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 975,456 | 521.7B | -0.80% |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 975,312 | 525.9B | +1.41% |
Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin on 1 August 2017: the two chains share history up to block 478,558, and the first BCH-only block is 478,559. The algorithm stayed the same, SHA-256, and so did the 10-minute target block time. Any Bitcoin ASIC can mine BCH, and large miners move between the two networks whenever one becomes more profitable.
Only a small share of total SHA-256 hashrate mines BCH, so Bitcoin Cash difficulty is many times lower than Bitcoin's. A network like that is vulnerable to hashrate rushing in and out: if some Bitcoin miners switch over for a while, BCH blocks come in quick succession, and once they leave, blocks stall. That is why the defining feature of the network is an adjustment algorithm that reacts at every block.
At launch, BCH inherited Bitcoin's difficulty with only a small slice of the hashrate, and waiting for a 2016-block epoch to end would have taken far too long. So alongside the regular adjustment ran the emergency difficulty adjustment, EDA: if the last six blocks took more than 12 hours, difficulty dropped by 20%.
Miners soon learned to play it. They let difficulty fall, then piled in and found blocks several times faster than planned, and after the next increase went back to Bitcoin. From August to November 2017, difficulty and block times swung in large waves.
On 13 November 2017, EDA was replaced by an algorithm that recalculates difficulty at every block from the work and time of the last 144 blocks, roughly the past day. The waves became much smaller but didn't disappear: a 144-block window reacts with a lag, and miners who hopped onto BCH for a few hours still made block times swing.
The 144-block window was a compromise: a shorter one would make difficulty jitter with random runs of blocks, a longer one would react even more slowly. Three years of cw-144 showed that window averaging is fundamentally weak against hashrate that hops between chains, and the network moved to a different kind of algorithm.
Since 15 November 2020, BCH has used ASERT (aserti3-2d). Instead of averaging a window of blocks, it looks at how far the chain is ahead of or behind an ideal schedule measured from a fixed anchor block. Blocks faster than one per 10 minutes make difficulty rise smoothly; slower blocks make it fall.
The speed of the response is set by a two-day half-life: every two days behind schedule halve the difficulty, every two days ahead double it. Each block moves it only slightly, so the curve is smooth, and short hashrate raids pay off far less than they did under cw-144.
Since adjustment happens at every block, the page shows the current value, the 24-hour average and its change from the previous day, and the chart plots daily points with a 7-day moving average. The 24-hour average block time against the 10-minute target tells you whether difficulty is keeping up with hashrate: a persistent gap means hashrate is arriving or leaving faster than ASERT catches up.
The hashrate estimate on the page is derived from the same difficulty. Compare it with Bitcoin's hashrate and you can see what share of SHA-256 power is currently on BCH. A Bitcoin Cash pool on RuPool is coming soon; the network itself can already be tracked here with data from our own full node.
Both networks run SHA-256 with a 10-minute block, and difficulty scales with hashrate. BCH gets only a small share of SHA-256 power, so its difficulty is many times lower.
At every block. Since November 2020 this is done by ASERT; before that, cw-144 averaged the last 144 blocks. Bitcoin Cash has no epochs and no single adjustment date like Bitcoin.
It is an algorithm that checks the chain against an ideal schedule of one block every 10 minutes from a fixed starting point. Two days behind means half the difficulty, two days ahead means double, and in between it changes smoothly.
Yes, both networks use SHA-256, and switching only takes changing the pool in the device settings. That very ease of switching is what pushed BCH to look for a fast and stable difficulty algorithm.
The BCH pool is being prepared and is marked as coming soon on the site. RuPool currently mines BTC, LTC and DOGE, while this Bitcoin Cash difficulty page already runs on data from our own full node.