Global Bitcoin Computing Power

[Seal]

Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76

Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?

[LiteCoinGuy]

i estimate 5000000 times more    (but hopefully someone has a better calculation )

[bargainbin]

Back in 2013, this Forbes contributor mentioned that by crude calculations, Bitcoin's hash rate equated to 256 times faster then the top 500 supercomputers combined:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/#3015c8e28b76

Has anyone done a more recent analysis of this?

Unlike the Bitcoin network, what makes "supercomputers" super is they can solve more than one problem, they're "programmable."
Think of the Bitcoin network as a whole shitload of circa '70 pocket calculators, with all the keys broken except for the (number) 2 and the plus sign.
So as long as you don't care what number you add "2" to, you can do it super fast by using Bitcoin

[gentlemand]

I like that analogy very much. There's little or no point in attempting to compare the two. They're fundamentally different beasts.