Bitcoin TPS: Transactions Per Second, Block Time & Fees [2026]

Why Is Bitcoin Often Said to Process 7 Transactions per Second?

Bitcoin’s commonly cited 7 TPS is a legacy theoretical estimate: a 1,000,000-byte block divided by an assumed 250-byte average transaction and a 600-second block interval equals approximately 6.7 TPS. Actual TPS varies with transaction size, SegWit usage, batching and block timing. For current performance, view Bitcoin’s live TPS and real-time network metrics below.

Bitcoin TPS, Block Time & Finality Time

Bitcoin TPS (1H)

6.66 tx/s

2.15%

Bitcoin Max TPS (100 blocks)

13.48 tx/s

Bitcoin Theoretical TPS

7 tx/s

Bitcoin Finality Time

Bitcoin Block Time (1H)

9m 43s

Bitcoin Transaction Volume (1H)

19.4K txns

2.15%

Bitcoin Total Transactions

1.44B txns

Bitcoin Type

Layer 1

Bitcoin Launch Date

Jan 3, 2009

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient & Miners

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient

Bitcoin Miners

162

0.62%

Bitcoin Hashrate

1.09K EH/s

3.71%

Bitcoin Consensus Mechanism

PoW

Bitcoin Governance

Off-chain

Bitcoin Developer Activity

Bitcoin Developers

2,031

0.10%

Bitcoin Commits

126,300

0.03%

Bitcoin Repos

Bitcoin Stars

108,237

Bitcoin Watchers

5,572

0.04%

Bitcoin Fees & Market Cap

Bitcoin On-Chain Revenue

$218.2K

3.23%

Bitcoin Average Transaction Fee

$0.2666

10.67%

Bitcoin Market Cap

$1.518T

3.03%

Bitcoin FDV

$1.587T

3.04%

Bitcoin Market Cap / FDV

95.64%

0.00%

Bitcoin Price

$75,580