Hash Rate, Demystified
"Hash rate" is simply how many times per second your hardware can try to guess a valid block hash. Every attempt is one hash. The faster you can try, the more lottery tickets you are buying in the block race.
The Units
- 1 KH/s (kilohash) = 1,000 hashes per second
- 1 MH/s (megahash) = 1,000,000 hashes per second
- 1 GH/s (gigahash) = 1,000,000,000 hashes per second
- 1 TH/s (terahash) = 1,000,000,000,000 hashes per second
- 1 PH/s (petahash) = 1,000,000,000,000,000 hashes per second
- 1 EH/s (exahash) = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 hashes per second
What Does 100 TH/s Feel Like?
A 100 TH/s plan means your rented slice of hardware is attempting 100 trillion hashes every second. To put that in perspective, if every person on Earth flipped a coin once per second, it would take about 125 years for the whole population to match one second of your plan.
The unit that matters most is not the hash rate alone — it is hash rate per watt. That is efficiency, and it decides whether you make a profit.
Hash Rate ≠ Guaranteed Earnings
Two plans with the same 100 TH/s rating can earn very different amounts depending on the coin, the current network difficulty, and the coin price. When you compare plans, look at the daily payout rate (which we show on every plan card) rather than just the raw hash rate.