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Network hashrate in 2016

Total computing power securing bitcoin, in exahashes per second, daily since 2013.

Network hashrate opened 2016 at 0.8 EH/s (January 1, 2016) and closed at 2.4 EH/s (December 31, 2016), up 207.8%. The high was 2.4 EH/s on December 31, 2016 and the low 0.7 EH/s on January 4, 2016.

Network hashrate, month by month in 2016

MonthMonth end
January 20161.0 EH/s
February 20161.1 EH/s
March 20161.2 EH/s
April 20161.2 EH/s
May 20161.4 EH/s
June 20161.5 EH/s
July 20161.4 EH/s
August 20161.6 EH/s
September 20161.8 EH/s
October 20161.9 EH/s
November 20162.1 EH/s
December 20162.4 EH/s

The combined speed of every machine mining bitcoin, estimated from how quickly blocks are being found. The line is a seven-day average; single days swing by 10% or more on luck alone.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2016: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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