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Bitcoin hash rate

How much computing power secures bitcoin: the number of guesses per second all miners make to find the next block, since 2009.

Hash rate

1.04 ZH/s

−5.8% in a year

30-day average to November 7, 2026; that day's estimate 988 EH/s

Record (30-day average)

1.11 ZH/s

on November 11, 2025

Blocks a day, last 12 months

143.4

the difficulty adjusts to keep about 144: one every 10 minutes

Hash rate in 2010

15.1 GH/s

average of the year; now ×68.6B

What hash rate isMiners race to find the next block by guessing numbers; the hash rate is how many guesses the whole network makes per second. More guessing does not create more bitcoins: every 2,016 blocks the difficulty adjusts to keep about one block every 10 minutes.

About ×68.6B since 2010From 15.1 GH/s on average in 2010 to 1.04 ZH/s now: the race moved from home computers to specialized chips (ASICs) in large data centers.

It can fall, tooThe deepest fall of the 30-day average since 2011: 43%, from Apr 2021 to Jul 2021.

An estimate, not a measurementNobody sees the guesses: the hash rate is inferred from how fast blocks are found at the current difficulty, so daily values jump around. The chart shows 7-day averages.

Hash rate since 2009

7-day averages, weekly, on a log scale: equal steps up the axis are equal multiples.

Hash rate, 7-day average

Weekly · log scaleData: Coin Metrics (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Average by year

Year	Average hash rate	Against the year before
2026 to Nov 7, 2026	963 EH/s	×1.04
2025	929 EH/s	×1.47
2024	634 EH/s	×1.66
2023	381 EH/s	×1.74
2022	219 EH/s	×1.51
2021	145 EH/s	×1.21
2020	120 EH/s	×1.8
2019	66.3 EH/s	×1.83
2018	36.4 EH/s	×5.76
2017	6.31 EH/s	×4.16
2016	1.52 EH/s	×3.75
2015	405 PH/s	×2.87
2014	141 PH/s	×96
2013	1.47 PH/s	×93.8
2012	15.6 TH/s	×2.48
2011	6.31 TH/s	×417
2010	15.1 GH/s	×3,341
2009	4.53 MH/s	—

Averages of the daily estimates; the first and the latest year are partial. Data: Coin Metrics (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How it is calculated

Hash rate: Coin Metrics' daily mean (HashRate), in terahashes per second, estimated from the blocks found and their difficulty.
Units: 1 EH/s (exahash per second) = 1,000 PH/s = one million TH/s = 10¹⁸ guesses per second.
Not investment advice. Past returns, and past crashes, do not tell what will happen next.