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Blocks today

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Bitcoin produces a block roughly every 10 minutes. Six blocks make a block hour, or hexad.

blockface turns that rhythm into a clock. Instead of hours and minutes, it counts hexads and blocks from midnight, one block for each ten-minute beat, six blocks to a hexad.

But Bitcoin doesn't keep perfect time. Blocks arrive when they arrive, sometimes early, sometimes late. The timer counts the wait for the next block, carrying over once for every 10 minutes that pass. The offset shows the consequence: how far block time has wandered from the clock on your wall.

The hexagons below show the intervals of the last 16 blocks. Green blocks arrived faster than the 10 minute target; red blocks took longer. The pulsing hexagon beyond the divider is the block being mined right now, changing as the wait grows.

It looks like a clock, but it runs on Bitcoin time.

clock dashboard block time