Bitcoin Hash Rate (Live Chart)
The total computing power securing the Bitcoin network. More hash rate means the chain is harder and more expensive to attack.
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Network hash rate in exahashes per second on a log left axis, with BTC price overlaid on the right (log).
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Hash rate is a security and supply-cost signal, not a price timer. It tends to follow price with a lag because it takes time to plug in machines, and it has kept climbing across cycles regardless.
Hash rate is the total number of guesses per second that all the miners on the Bitcoin network are making as they compete to add the next block. It is measured here in exahashes per second, where one exahash is a billion billion guesses. It is the clearest single measure of how much real-world computing power stands behind the chain.
It matters because that computing power is what makes Bitcoin expensive to attack. To rewrite recent history an attacker would have to out-muscle the entire network, and the higher the hash rate climbs the more absurdly costly that becomes. A rising hash rate is a rising wall around the ledger.
The remarkable thing is the trend. Through every bear market, exchange collapse and mining ban, hash rate has marched to new all-time highs again and again. Miners occasionally switch machines off when price falls below their costs, which is exactly what the Hash Ribbons chart is built to catch.
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