hashrate

English

Etymology

From hash +‎ rate.

Noun

hashrate (plural hashrates)

1. (computing, cryptocurrencies) The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
   • 2017, Adam Rothstein, The End of Money‎^[1], John Murray Press, →ISBN:

     Specialized hardware like a GPU is designed to do large numbers of small tasks very quickly, and so excel at hashing: typically a single GPU can produce a hashrate at least ten times faster than that of a single CPU.

2. The network hashrate; the estimated number of hashes generated by the entire mining network.

   BitCoin hashrate

   • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     In August last year, the most recent data available, Kazakhstan accounted for 18% of the global “hashrate” – crypto lingo for the amount of computing power being used by computers hooked up to the bitcoin network.

Related terms

• megahash
• terahash
• petahash
• exahash

Translations

number of hashes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈希率 (hāxīlǜ)

• Finnish: louhintateho
• French: taux de hachage m

Anagrams

• heat rash, terahash