Countdown to the BCH halving at block 1,050,000: the same height as Bitcoin, but its own date.
Current block
977,304
Blocks remaining
72,696
Estimated date
April 2, 2028
Block reward
3.125 → 1.5625 BCH
Average block time
10 min 0 s — by target block time
≈ 20.12 million BCH of 21 million (95.8%)
By the emission schedule at the current block.The next Bitcoin Cash halving will happen at block 1,050,000, the same height as Bitcoin's. The reward will drop from 3.125 to 1.5625 BCH. The block number is the same, the dates are not: the two networks have different heights and different block speeds. The countdown at the top of the page shows the estimated day.
Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin on August 1, 2017. The first block of its own is 478,559. Everything before that is shared, so the first two halvings, in 2012 and 2016, are the same for both.
Right after the split BCH ran an Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA), and for several months its blocks came much faster than every 10 minutes. During that time BCH overtook Bitcoin in block height. That is why the third and fourth BCH halvings came earlier than Bitcoin's.
| Halving | Block | Bitcoin Cash | Bitcoin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 210,000 | 2012-11-28, shared | 2012-11-28 |
| 2nd | 420,000 | 2016-07-09, shared | 2016-07-09 |
| 3rd | 630,000 | 2020-04-08 | 2020-05-11 |
| 4th | 840,000 | 2024-04-03 | 2024-04-20 |
| 5th | 1,050,000 | expected 2028 | expected 2028 |
Since November 15, 2020, Bitcoin Cash recalculates difficulty every block with the ASERT algorithm (aserti3-2d). It keeps the network on an ideal schedule of one block per 10 minutes, counted from an anchor block. If blocks came faster for a while, difficulty rises until the network is back on schedule.
That is why for BCH it is more accurate to estimate the date with the 10-minute target than with the average of recent months, as for Bitcoin. That is how the countdown works. The block height is live, from the pool's node.
Bitcoin Cash mining on RuPool is coming soon. For now the BCH countdown is for reference. BCH is mined on the same SHA-256 ASICs as Bitcoin.
At block 1,050,000, expected in 2028. The countdown at the top of the page shows the estimated date.
The block height is the same, 1,050,000, but the dates differ. In 2020 and 2024 BCH halved 2–5 weeks before Bitcoin because its chain is ahead in height.
1.5625 BCH instead of 3.125 BCH, plus transaction fees.
On April 3, 2024 (UTC), at block 840,000.
Soon. The pool is preparing a BCH launch; today RuPool mines BTC, LTC and DOGE.