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Network hashrate in 2021

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

Network hashrate opened 2021 at 142.7 EH/s (January 1, 2021) and closed at 168.1 EH/s (December 31, 2021), up 17.8%. The high was 182.0 EH/s on December 10, 2021 and the low 84.3 EH/s on July 3, 2021.

Network hashrate, month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 2021150.1 EH/s
February 2021156.3 EH/s
March 2021164.1 EH/s
April 2021157.4 EH/s
May 2021150.2 EH/s
June 202190.6 EH/s
July 2021107.8 EH/s
August 2021126.1 EH/s
September 2021139.4 EH/s
October 2021160.1 EH/s
November 2021156.3 EH/s
December 2021168.1 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 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2021: 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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