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Hashrate

The number of hash computations per second — of a machine, a farm, or an entire network. The fundamental unit of mining capacity.

Hashrate scales from kilohashes (KH/s) through mega, giga, tera, peta to exahashes (EH/s). A CPU mines Monero in KH/s; an Antminer S21 XP produces 270 TH/s; the Bitcoin network operates in hundreds of EH/s. Your revenue share equals your hashrate divided by the network's.

Units are algorithm-specific and not comparable across coins: 1 GH/s of Scrypt represents vastly more silicon effort than 1 GH/s of SHA-256. Always compare hashrate, efficiency and revenue within a single algorithm.

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Network Hashrate
Efficiency (J/TH)
Hashprice

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