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Grid Stress (btc.grid-stress)

Mining network health: block production speed against the 10-minute target and the direction it points for the next difficulty adjustment, with hash rate and the hash ribbon

Tier: free | 4 metrics

Metrics included: bitcoin-difficulty, bitcoin-hash-rate, epoch-pace, hash-ribbon

Metrics in this briefing

• Bitcoin Difficulty: Current Bitcoin mining difficulty, as reported by mempool.space Source: mempool.space, Daily (read every 30 minutes, one figure a day).
• Bitcoin Hash Rate: Total Bitcoin network computational hash rate in EH/s (mempool.space) Source: mempool.space, Daily (read every 30 minutes, one figure a day).
• Epoch Pace: Percentage deviation of actual block production time from the 10-minute target. Positive (slower blocks) means downward adjustment pressure on difficulty, negative (faster) upward pressure.
• Hash Ribbon: Hash rate momentum indicator - 30-day vs 60-day moving average ratio Source: PreReason's calculation from mempool.space's daily hash rate (the ratio of its 30 day and 60 day averages), Recomputed hourly; its input daily.

Correlations

Measured over 30 days:

• Hash Ribbon and Bitcoin Hash Rate

Questions about the Grid Stress briefing

What is in the Grid Stress briefing?

Mining network health: block production speed against the 10-minute target and the direction it points for the next difficulty adjustment, with hash rate and the hash ribbon. It holds 4 metrics and 1 correlation pair over 30 days, each figure with the date it describes and the source it came from.

Which plan reads the Grid Stress briefing?

Every PreReason account reads it, the free plan included.

How does an AI agent read the Grid Stress briefing?

Over MCP, with the get_context tool and the briefing id btc.grid-stress. Over REST, with GET https://api.prereason.com/api/context?briefing=btc.grid-stress and an API key, as Markdown (the default) or JSON (format=json).

Can I read the Grid Stress briefing as of a past date?

Yes, with date=YYYY-MM-DD. A dated read serves only periods released by that date, and each figure says when it was public, or that it may be a later revision. How far back depends on the plan; on the Free plan: Today + last 30 days. Higher plans reach further.

Where does the data in the Grid Stress briefing come from?

Each figure names its source and the date it describes. The data sources page (https://www.prereason.com/data-sources) lists every source PreReason reads.

API: GET /api/context?briefing=btc.grid-stress

Format options: ?format=markdown (default) or ?format=json

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