The Bitcoin hash rate is expressed as hashes per second (h/s) . Bitcoin’s network is large and powerful, and as a result, can calculate quintillions of hashes every second. For reference, a quintillion is a million million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Read moreWhat are hashes in Bitcoin mining?
In cryptocurrency mining, a target hash is a numeric value that a hashed block header (which is used to identify individual blocks in a blockchain) must be less than or equal to in order for a new block to be awarded to a miner.
Read moreHow much hashing power does it take to mine 1 Bitcoin?
Each Bitcoin block takes 10 minutes to mine. This means that in theory, it will take just 10 minutes to mine 1 BTC (as part of the 6.25 BTC reward).
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