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Network hashrate in 2018

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

Network hashrate opened 2018 at 14.1 EH/s (January 1, 2018) and closed at 40.7 EH/s (December 31, 2018), up 189.6%. The high was 54.7 EH/s on October 2, 2018 and the low 14.1 EH/s on January 1, 2018.

Network hashrate, month by month in 2018

MonthMonth end
January 201820.1 EH/s
February 201823.1 EH/s
March 201825.6 EH/s
April 201827.9 EH/s
May 201834.0 EH/s
June 201838.4 EH/s
July 201842.3 EH/s
August 201851.6 EH/s
September 201853.7 EH/s
October 201849.4 EH/s
November 201840.7 EH/s
December 201840.7 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 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2018: 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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