Dogecoin: 84 blocks too few a day

What is documented: in the 24 hours to October 28, 2026, 10:38 p.m. UTC, the Dogecoin network produced 1,356 blocks. The target is 1,440, that is one per minute. Our assessment follows further below: for the price this gap means little, but for your timing on transfers and for the money supply of Dogecoin it means more than most calculations online assume.

The figure does not come from an announcement but from the network data itself. Anyone setting the block height against the clock over longer stretches sees the same shortfall across seven days and across 30 days. So the network is not running slowly for one bad evening; it has been doing so for weeks. This article works out what follows from that, and where it affects you day to day.

Eighty-four blocks short in 24 hours

Dogecoin targets one block per minute. That works out to 1,440 blocks a day. The block height stood at 6,434,606 on October 28 at 10:38 p.m. UTC, and in the preceding 24 hours 1,356 new blocks had been added. That is 84 fewer than intended, a shortfall of 5.83 percent. Arithmetically a block therefore takes 63.72 seconds instead of 60.

A single day proves nothing on its own. Block production is a random process, and deviations of a few percent are part of normal operation on any proof-of-work blockchain. The figure only becomes interesting once it repeats over longer periods.