Bitcoin hashrate today
The total computing power securing Bitcoin, estimated from the difficulty and recent block times.
What is Bitcoin hashrate?
Hashrate is the number of guesses per second that all miners together make while searching for the next block. It is measured in exahashes per second (EH/s): one EH/s is a billion billion hashes every second. More hashrate means a more secure network, because rewriting history would require out-computing all of it.
Hashrate and difficulty
When hashrate rises, blocks arrive faster than every ten minutes until the difficulty adjusts — every 2,016 blocks — to bring the pace back. That is why the hashrate chart and the difficulty move together.
How hashrate shows up in FreeBTC
Each FreeBTC round asks whether the next block arrives in under ten minutes. When hashrate is climbing faster than the difficulty, “fast” blocks become more common — reading this chart is part of the game.
What is the Bitcoin hashrate right now?
The value at the top of this page is the current estimate, refreshed from live network data.
Why does the hashrate matter?
It measures how much work protects the blockchain. Higher hashrate makes attacks more expensive.
How is hashrate measured?
Nobody can measure it directly. It is estimated from the current difficulty and how quickly recent blocks were found.