Halving

Halving is not a Bitcoin word

Four chains cut their block reward on a schedule arithmetic already knows, each on its own clock. We count the blocks — the only part of this that is a fact — and say plainly how wide the uncertainty on the date really is.

The next one is not Bitcoin's Litecoin halves first — 27 July 2027, 173,786 blocks away.

Next up

Litecoin LTC

173,786 Blocks to go

79.3% through this era 27 July 2027

Reward 6.25 → 3.125 LTC

Bitcoin Cash BCH

79,343 Blocks to go

62.2% through this era 2 April 2028

Reward 3.125 → 1.5625 BCH

Bitcoin BTC

80,905 Blocks to go

61.5% through this era 13 April – 16 April 2028

Reward 3.125 → 1.5625 BTC

Zcash ZEC

906,498 Blocks to go

46.0% through this era not dated

Reward 1.5625 → 0.78125 ZEC

Ordered by when it happens, not by market cap — which is why Bitcoin is not first. Block heights are read from two independent sources and must agree before we will put a date on one; the chains marked "not dated" are the ones where we only have a single source so far. How this is measured →