Further, this week a large swathe of miners started pointing
their hashrate at the BCH chain and it is now longer than the legacy chain.
Antpool represented 18 percent of the network
hashrate at the time of this writing.
Not exact matches
You can also check your dashboard
at your mining pool's website to get an idea of your
hashrate (it usually takes a good 10 - 20 minutes until it shows actual speed, as it is averaged over time).
«New generation equipment, such as Bitmain's model S9, has the ability to quickly add
hashrate which, absent changing other factors, would increase difficulty to the point where older generation miners are no longer profitable
at most electricity price points.»
Input the Bitcoin Gold address you are mining to, and the pool will remotely show you your current
hashrate and pending balance, however you can also view your current
hashrate locally just by looking
at the miners CMD or Terminal window.
Looking
at the total
hashrate, which is the number of calculations the network can perform per second, and applying a generous miner efficiency of 0.6 watts per gigahash, we can estimate our own back - of - the - envelope Bitcoin network constant power draw
at just under 215 MW, although this figure is always in flux (it's important to note that many of the variables in my calculation are constantly changing slightly).
At press time, Ether Classic
hashrate was equal to about 5.7 % of the
hashrate for the blockchain that implemented the hard fork.
Miner support for the proposed improvement has stagnated
at roughly 25 percent, and the current implementation calls for support from 95 percent of the network
hashrate.
Your machine's success
at mining coins will be determined by the
hashrate afforded by its processor and GPU (s).
Anyone that suggests that
hashrate will drop 50 percent is either fearmongering or doesn't understand mining
at all.»
Hashrate is the speed
at which a block is discovered and the rate
at which the related math problem is solved.
* Concurrently, massive Chinese mining power has switched to work on Cash;
at present,
hashrate is almost equal between the two networks.
Apart from this monopoly that they have in the mining pools and
hashrates, they also produce
at least 70 % of the global ASIC chips used to mine cryptocurrency.
The BCH
hashrate is currently operating
at only 1/2 of an exahash as most of the pools are now back to pointing towards the legacy chain.
«New generation equipment, such as Bitmain's model S9, has the ability to quickly add
hashrate which, absent changing other factors, would increase difficulty to the point where older generation miners are no longer profitable
at most electricity price points.»
Signees agreed to activate SegWit
at an 80 % threshold, while the Bitcoin Core's SegWit needs 95 % of the
hashrate to be activated.
At present, both the bitcoin and bitcoin cash networks are heavily dependant upon the efforts of Chinese miners, who hold over 80 % of the
hashrate distribution.
The pool
hashrate reached a record high in September last year, rising
at a time to second in the world.
Much like Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Cash is heavily decentralized due to its large
hashrate and the number of full nodes, which stand
at over 1,200.
Although Voegtlin claimed Bitcoin Unlimited is not much of a topic of discussion anymore, he also pointed out that a large percentage of the network
hashrate (around 39 percent
at the time of this writing) is still signaling support for the alternative software client.