Hash rate or Hash power is the most important terminology in the blockchain technology. The data in the new block is stored as a hash. Due to the
grave significance in cryptocurrency operation it is often described in the mining community.
It is often coined as the measure of miner’s performance. The
speed at which miners solve the Bitcoin code. The attempt per second that the
miners used to solve the complex mathematical puzzle is referred to as the hash
rate or hash power.
In simpler terms hash operation done in a given time is coined
as hash rate. In Past, the miner performance was measured on the basis of
billions of hashes/s.
Hash rate is based on the number of time SHA – 256
hashes a string of data.
Profitability
Lower is the hash power more will be the opportunity of
miners for mining. Higher will be the hash rate less profitable will be the
mining. Presently, the Bitcoin network is
operating at 80,000,000 TH/s.
Measurement
Hash per second is commonly used in the measurement of the Hash rate.
It represents SHA-256 algorithms performed per second. As SHA -256 takes a block
of information and convert in the hash.
Commonly
used Denominations of Hash Rate
1 GH/s equals one billion hashes per second.
1 TH/s equals one trillion hashes per second.
1 PH/s equals one quadrillion hashes per second.
1 EH/s equals one quintillion hashes per second.
Further,
1 KH/s equal one thousands of hashes per second.
1 MH/s equals one million hashes per second.
Number
of Miners and Hash Rate
The difficulty of the mining increases with the number of
miners in the network.
This is due to more computing power require which in turn
increase the amount of electricity consumed.
Summary
Hash rate is vital in the cryptocurrency relaying in the
proof of work (PoW) consensus mechanism. The computer is competing for the operation
of the PoW network is coined as the hash rate. The lower the hash rate
profitability to the miners. This is due to less use of computing power.
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