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Title: What is Hash rate and how is it measured?
Post by: MatthewDietrichRSA on May 13, 2013, 05:19:48 PM
How do you measure hash rate?All i know it is how fast you can mine... ???


Title: Re: What is Hash rate and how is it measured?
Post by: azw409 on May 13, 2013, 07:32:22 PM
Your miner software will spit out your hash rate every second or so. The pool that you are connected to will also estimate your hash rate based on the number of shares you submit to them in a time period.

The rate is how many sha256 hashes you are achieving every second so 250 Mh/s is 250 million per second.   

Hope that helps