Compare Bitcoin vs Polkadot

Bitcoin TPS is 5.76 tx/s, while Polkadot TPS is 0 tx/s

5.76 tx/s

0 tx/s

Bitcoin max TPS is 97.09% lower than Polkadot max TPS

13.48 tx/s

462.7 tx/s

Bitcoin max theoretical TPS is 99.3% lower than Polkadot max theoretical TPS

7 tx/s

1,000 tx/s

Bitcoin transaction volume is 13.7K txns, while Polkadot transaction volume is 0 txns

13.7K txns

0 txns

Bitcoin block time is 100X longer than Polkadot block time

9m 56s

5.99s

Bitcoin finality is 120X longer than Polkadot finality

1h

30s

Bitcoin has 32X more total transactions than Polkadot

1.47B txns

46.1M txns

Bitcoin was launched 11 years before Polkadot

Jan 3, 2009

May 26, 2020

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient is 97.99% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

3

149

Bitcoin has 63.4% fewer miners than Polkadot has validators

183

500

Bitcoin hashrate is 1.01K EH/s, while Polkadot stake is $756M

1.01K EH/s

$756M

Bitcoin is PoW, while Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Work (PoW)

Nominated Proof of Stake

Bitcoin off-chain governance is worse than Polkadot on-chain governance

Off-chain

On-chain

Bitcoin has 77.38% fewer developers than Polkadot

2,065

9,130

Bitcoin has 81.77% fewer commits than Polkadot

129,090

707,975

Bitcoin has 96.01% fewer repos than Polkadot

23

577

Bitcoin has 3.05X more stars than Polkadot

108,901

35,651

Bitcoin has 2.57X more watchers than Polkadot

5,546

2,159

Bitcoin on-chain revenue is 4.58MX higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$201K

$0.0439

Bitcoin average transaction fee is 27,481X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.425

$0.0₄155

Bitcoin market cap is 999X higher than Polkadot market cap

$1.41T

$1.41B

Bitcoin FDV is 851X higher than Polkadot FDV

$1.47T

$1.73B

Bitcoin Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.17X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

95.77%

81.52%

Bitcoin price is 85,064X higher than Polkadot price

$70,156.50

$0.8247