People massively underestimate how huge Bitcoin’s proof-of-work really is.
Let’s take a theoretical maximum of global general-purpose compute:
📱 Smartphones (~4B @ ~500 h/s)
→ 2 × 10¹² h/s
💻 Laptops/PCs (~1B @ ~10 kH/s)
→ 1 × 10¹³ h/s
🏢 Enterprise servers (~100M CPUs @ ~50 kH/s)
→ 5 × 10¹⁵ h/s
🏭 Global datacenters (cloud + hyperscalers + gov compute)
→ ~2–5 × 10¹⁶ h/s
Add everything:
🔢 TOTAL GLOBAL GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTE ≈ (3–6) × 10¹⁶ h/s
Now compare to the real networks:
– Bitcoin: ~1.1 × 10²¹ h/s
– Zcash: ~1.5 × 10¹⁰ h/s
– Monero: ~3 × 10⁹ h/s
Here’s what actually matters:
Bitcoin’s hashrate is ~20,000× larger
than the combined hashrate of
all phones + all laptops + all enterprise servers + all datacenters on Earth.
But the same “global compute pool” is:
🔥 ~2,000,000× bigger than Zcash
🔥 ~10,000,000× bigger than Monero
This is the entire point:
Bitcoin operates at an ASIC-industrial, planetary scale.
Zcash and Monero operate at a scale where a big tech company—or a government—could realistically overpower them.
Different scale.
Different threat model.
Different destiny.
