Shibacoin 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: 896,905 blocks as of 2026-10-03 works out to about 1.7 years of target-pace heartbeats — arithmetic, not a birthday, since real blocks never run exactly on target. The chain's actual birth dates are measured too: the genesis header is stamped 2024-12-16, mining began with block 1 on 2024-12-21, and an 88-SHIC coinbase curio sits at height 0 — all read off our own node, which verified this tip block-by-block 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 — 61.1 s as of 2026-10-03 — 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 basket 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?

We will not borrow one — the explorer's API is someone else's node, and our public endpoint serves aggregates today. But SHIC is the chain where the honest table is closest: pool attribution in this family cannot be keyed on AuxPoW chain IDs (Dingocoin accepts two; Dogmcoin's rotates yearly), so we attribute from the parent coinbase itself — and that pipeline is already live here, with 1,191 blocks attributed in its first day (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-03). A per-block table built from our own archive, pool names included and earned, 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. On SHIC the fees half of that sum is nearly a rounding error so far: in the first 132,300 blocks our archive has banked, only 10.4% carried any fee at all, which is exactly why no revenue math ships on these pages yet. 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. Carriage is thinner than the big crosses, so pool choice is close to made for you — every block in our first attribution window (1,191 blocks, 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-03) carried a parent-pool coinbase.

FAQ

How often does Shibacoin 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 61.1 s as of 2026-10-03; the live tile above updates it every 60 seconds.

How many SHIC blocks per day?

About 1,440 at the 60-second target — 86,400 seconds in a day divided by 60. At the measured 61.1-second average of 2026-10-03 the real figure was about 1,415, and it wanders with block-time luck and with parent-pool basket shifts; the live tile computes it 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 SHIC from their merge rosters, the work pointed at this chain steps suddenly — and on a cross this thin, a single roster decision is most of the step. Blocks then run fast or slow until DigiShield catches up; persistent deviation is exactly what the difficulty-pressure gauge reads.

Why is there no list of recent blocks here?

Because we will not borrow one. The project's explorer has a basic API, but it is someone else's node, and our own public endpoint serves aggregates today. Our node records every block and every AuxPoW header — 1,191 SHIC blocks were parent-pool-attributed from our archive in its first day, 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-03 — and the per-block table ships from that archive, with pool names that are measured rather than guessed. We say so rather than guess.