Junkcoin Blocks
What the block height counts
One block is one 60-second heartbeat of the chain, so the height is a clock as much as a counter: 1,167,608 blocks as of 2026-10-09 works out to about 2.2 years of target-pace heartbeats. On this chain the clock has a twist our own headers expose: the canonical chain carries the original genesis block stamped 2013, yet block 1 is stamped 2024-11-01 — the November 2024 revival restarted the chain from genesis, and its first 130,000 blocks landed inside three days as pool work raced ahead of daily retargets. What makes our figure different from an explorer’s: this tip is verified block-by-block by our own node from genesis, over the coin’s P2P network. Nothing on this page is quoted from anyone.
The 60-second target, and what the interval tells you
The interval tile is the chain’s pulse against its target — our node measured 54.8 s as of 2026-10-09. Averaging above 60 seconds means the work currently pointed at the chain is under-delivering against the difficulty it faces; averaging below means extra work arrived. On JKC the answer is not immediate: difficulty corrects only at the next 1,440-block epoch boundary, so a drifted pulse persists for up to a day instead of being damped within a block. The signed version of this story is the e_hafeer gauge on the difficulty page, recipe included (it read +0.004 as of 2026-10-09).
One caveat we keep making because it keeps being true: luck dominates short samples. Block discovery is memoryless, so individual gaps scatter from seconds to many minutes on a perfectly healthy chain. Read the average, not the gap.
Where’s the block table?
There is no public JKC block-feed API we trust, and our public endpoint serves aggregates today — so this page shows aggregates, honestly, rather than a borrowed table. The per-block table this chain deserves is an attributed one: JKC runs a strict single AuxPoW chain ID (0x2020), and our node stores the parent coinbase of every merged block — 1,234 of them attributed in our first measured day (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-03), 88% under F2Pool tags. A table built from our own archive, with parent pools named from evidence rather than guessed, is the version worth waiting for.
Why it matters for miners
Blocks per day times the per-block reward (subsidy plus fees) is the entire revenue stream this chain shares out — and on Junkcoin the per-block reward is itself a lottery, with documented triple-reward and jackpot odds, so the stream only makes sense as an average over many blocks. Interval drift is also the earliest own-node tell that basket work moved: a parent pool re-aiming its roster shows up here as fast or slow blocks, and on this chain the drift runs for up to a day before the 1,440-block retarget books it. The Junkcoin Foundation publishes its own merge-mining tutorials aimed at home miners.
FAQ
- How often does Junkcoin find a block?
- The target is one block every 60 seconds. Our own node measured the recent average at 54.8 s as of 2026-10-09 — and because JKC retargets only once every 1,440 blocks, the average can sit off-target for up to a day before difficulty corrects. The live tile above updates every 60 seconds.
- How many JKC blocks per day?
- About 1,440 at the 60-second target — 86,400 seconds in a day divided by 60; that same 1,440 is exactly one difficulty epoch on this chain. Our node’s measured interval of 54.8 s as of 2026-10-09 works out to about 1,577; the actual count wanders with block-time luck and with parent-pool basket shifts, and the live tile computes the real figure from the measured interval.
- Why do intervals average above or below 60 seconds?
- Two reasons. Randomness: block discovery is a lottery, so short samples scatter widely around the target even on a perfectly healthy chain. And basket shifts: when Litecoin parent pools add or drop JKC from their merge rosters, the work pointed at this chain steps suddenly — and unlike its DigiShield cousins, JKC’s difficulty answers only at the next 1,440-block boundary, so the fast or slow stretch can run for up to a day. Persistent deviation is exactly what the difficulty-pressure gauge on the difficulty page is reading.
- Why is there no list of recent blocks here?
- Because we will not borrow one. There is no public JKC block-feed API we trust, and our own public endpoint serves aggregates today. Our node records every block and the parent coinbase of every merged block, so the coming table can name parent pools from evidence — it attributed 1,234 merged JKC blocks in our first measured day. Until that ships from our own archive: aggregates only, honestly.