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GET /v1/difficulty

Difficulty & hashrate

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/bitcoin-api/v1/difficulty" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/bitcoin-api/v1/difficulty", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/bitcoin-api/v1/difficulty");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/bitcoin-api/v1/difficulty",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "current_hashrate": 1.010240014129629e+21,
        "progress_percent": 17.91,
        "remaining_blocks": 1655,
        "current_difficulty": 138955357012247.3,
        "average_block_time_s": 614,
        "next_retarget_height": 953568,
        "estimated_retarget_date": 1781273566580,
        "difficulty_change_percent": -0.64
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:03:52.866Z",
        "request_id": "55091d2f-9729-4836-ba2f-b2139a8a1eb9"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Difficulty retrieved",
    "success": true
}