What is the cumulative total number of hashes computed by all the bitcoin miners of the world since the beginning of times (i.e. genesis)?
My rough estimate: 3.84e28
Which is high enough that finding a hash with 24 leading zeros becomes quite likely.
(The smallest hash found so far is of block 756951 with 24 zeroes
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000000005d6f06154c8685146aa7bc3dc9843876c9cefd0f
https://x.com/w_s_bitcoin/status/1795855405102330132
My estimate is just summing up the last 6 years with an estimate avg hashrate for the year)
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2024-05-30 08:19:55
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2024-05-30 08:19:55Event JSON
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