Pepecoin 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: 1,234,534 blocks as of 2026-10-03 works out to about 2.3 years of target-pace heartbeats — arithmetic, not a birthday, since real blocks never run exactly on target. 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. Averaging above 60 seconds means the work currently pointed at the chain is under-delivering against the difficulty it faces — and DigiShield answers within a block, easing difficulty until pace recovers. Averaging below means the opposite: extra work arrived and difficulty is climbing to meet it. The signed version of this story is the e_hafeer gauge on the difficulty page, recipe included.
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 trusted public PEP block-feed API, and our public endpoint serves aggregates today — so this page shows aggregates, honestly, rather than a borrowed table. There is a second, quieter reason rows would disappoint today even if we rushed them: pool attribution on this family cannot be keyed on AuxPoW chain IDs — Dingocoin accepts two chain IDs, and Dogmcoin's rotates yearly — so per-block pool names would be guesses. Our node records every AuxPoW header, which is exactly the dataset needed to attribute parent-pool work per cross; a table built from our own archive 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 — everything a PEP kicker pays flows through the numbers on this page. And interval drift is the earliest own-node tell that basket work moved: a parent pool re-aiming its roster shows up here as fast or slow blocks minutes before any third party reports anything. In most LTC merge rosters PEP is the default second kicker after BELLS.
FAQ
- How often does Pepecoin find a block?
- The target is one block every 60 seconds, and DigiShield re-aims difficulty at every block to hold that pace. Our own node measured the recent average at 62.0 s as of 2026-10-03; the live tile above updates it every 60 seconds.
- How many PEP blocks per day?
- About 1,440 at the 60-second target — 86,400 seconds in a day divided by 60. The actual count wanders with block-time luck and with parent-pool basket shifts; 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 PEP from their merge rosters, the work pointed at this chain steps suddenly, and blocks run fast or slow until DigiShield catches up — 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 PEP block-feed API we trust, and our own public endpoint serves aggregates today. Our node records every block, and the per-block table ships from that archive — with the added honesty problem solved that chain-ID attribution in this family is unreliable, so pool names would be guesses today. We say so rather than guess.