Congestion
Network Activity
Network congestion indicator. High values = fee pressure and blockspace competition.
Current Value
7801.5800
As of
2026-10-16
Z-Score
—
Signal
No threshold
Current Congestion reading
As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Congestion is 7,801.6, compared with 7,239.5 one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,491 daily readings from 2009-01-03 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.
Historical extremes
The highest Congestion on record is 1,266,249 on 2026-09-15; the lowest is 0.000 on 2009-01-03. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.
Read it with
- TX Count — Transaction count proxy derived from UTXO activity.
- TX Momentum — Transaction count momentum.
- UTXO Growth — Net change in unspent outputs.
- UTXO Density — Average outputs per block.
- Fee / Reward — Ratio of transaction fees to the block subsidy.
Data & method
Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Network Activity. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.