Compare Bitcoin vs ICP
Open in ChatGPTBitcoin vs ICP Scalability
Real-time TPS (1H)
Bitcoin TPS is 99.46% lower than ICP TPS
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Max TPS (100 blocks)
Bitcoin max TPS is 99.94% lower than ICP max TPS
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Max Theoretical TPS
Bitcoin max theoretical TPS is 99.99% lower than ICP max theoretical TPS
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Transaction Volume (1H)
Bitcoin transaction volume is 99.46% lower than ICP transaction volume
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Block Time (1H)
Bitcoin block time is 1,590X longer than ICP block time
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Finality
Bitcoin finality is 100% longer than ICP finality
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Type
Bitcoin and ICP are both layer 1 blockchains
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Total Transactions
Bitcoin has 99.52% fewer total transactions than ICP
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Launch Date
Bitcoin was launched 12 years before ICP
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Bitcoin vs ICP Decentralization
Nakamoto Coefficient
Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient is 71.42% lower than ICP Nakamoto Coefficient
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Validators/Miners
Bitcoin has 83.02% fewer miners than ICP has validators
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Stake/Hashrate
Bitcoin hashrate is 929 EH/s, while ICP stake is $1.028B
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Consensus Mechanism
Bitcoin is PoW, while ICP is Proof of Useful Work
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Governance
Bitcoin off-chain governance is worse than ICP on-chain governance
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Bitcoin vs ICP Developer Activity
Developers
Bitcoin has 2.49X more developers than ICP
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Repos
Bitcoin has 87.91% fewer repos than ICP
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Commits
Bitcoin has 1.49% fewer commits than ICP
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Stars
Bitcoin has 11X more stars than ICP
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Watchers
Bitcoin has 2.59X more watchers than ICP
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Bitcoin vs ICP Financials New
Chain Revenue
Bitcoin chain revenue is 15X higher than ICP chain revenue
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Average Transaction Fee
Bitcoin average transaction fee is 3,869X higher than ICP average transaction fee
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Price
Bitcoin price is 20,267X higher than ICP price
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Market Cap
Bitcoin market cap is 747X higher than ICP market cap
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Bitcoin vs ICP Real-Time TPS Chart
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About Blockchains
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin stands as a leading cryptocurrency and payment network, utilizing peer-to-peer technology to operate without central authorities. It embraces global participation as an open-source platform. A notable advancement in Bitcoin is the introduction of ordinals and inscriptions. Launched in January 2023, the Bitcoin ordinals protocol enables the embedding of digital content like art, text, or video directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain. This innovation allows for the creation of exclusive digital collectibles, giving each satoshi a unique identity and purpose, broadening Bitcoin's utility beyond its role as a store of value.
About ICP
The Internet Computer is a decentralized cloud blockchain that pursues the $1+ trillion cloud market — hosting apps, websites and enterprise systems, fully onchain, where they benefit from extraordinary security and resilience, can do multi-chain token processing, and can be administered in a decentralized way for safety.
A core purpose is “self-writing cloud”, where AI creates apps for mass market users, which are sophisticated and secure, in response to instructions they provide over chat.
The ICP token is burned powering onchain apps, and is a cryptocurrency used in network governance staking.
It’s easy to try — use AI to create onchain apps (e.g. caffeine.ai) or use an online IDE to write serverless code yourself (e.g. icp.ninja)!