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Title: Hashpower help Post by: BitGoon on May 21, 2020, 06:03:30 PM Stupid question from a Bitcoin neophyte regarding mining.i am trying to reconcile the amount of hashpower being used in the bitcoin network and I keep seeing terahash per second ( TH/s) and exahash per second (EX/s) used in a way that seems interchangeabley.. my understanding is that terahash represents 1 trillion and exahash represents 1 quintillion.. but I cannot reconcile the quoted numbers.. one website says today’s network hashpower is 120m terhashes per second while another says the number is 120 exahashes per second.. unless I am an idiot, those are not the same number.. can anyone help me understand?
Title: Re: Hashpower help Post by: bob123 on May 21, 2020, 06:22:28 PM 1 exa = 1.000 peta = 1.000.000 tera
So, 120 million tera hashes are indeed 120 exa hashes. Tera = 1012 Peta = 1015 Exa = 1018 Title: Re: Hashpower help Post by: BitMaxz on May 21, 2020, 10:06:24 PM To understand more check these images below.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/DDKSV.png https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/upload/en/images/thumb/8/8a/Cxd_zOLVEAEne74.jpg/350px-Cxd_zOLVEAEne74.jpg Commonly use are MH/s, GH/s, TH/s You can read the wiki page about prefixes and how hashrate is measured. You can read the link below. - https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Hashrate Title: Re: Hashpower help Post by: Velkro on May 21, 2020, 10:32:13 PM BitMaxz provided great table with conversions.
You will read all you need there. On a side note, hashing power is so huge, values used to describe it are hard to grasp as seen here. It will only get worse :) coz there is no slowing down of adding hashing power on horizon. |
