Compare Bitcoin vs Polkadot

Bitcoin TPS is 568X higher than Polkadot TPS

9.15 tx/s

0.02 tx/s

Bitcoin max TPS is 97.08% 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 434X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

25.2K txns

58 txns

Bitcoin block time is 76X longer than Polkadot block time

7m 38s

6.04s

Bitcoin finality is 120X longer than Polkadot finality

1h

30s

Bitcoin has 31X more total transactions than Polkadot

1.45B txns

46M txns

Bitcoin was launched 11 years before Polkadot

Jan 3, 2009

May 26, 2020

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient is 98.34% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

3

181

Bitcoin has 72.83% fewer miners than Polkadot has validators

163

600

Bitcoin hashrate is 1.22K EH/s, while Polkadot stake is $1.079B

1.22K EH/s

$1.079B

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 77.53% fewer developers than Polkadot

2,047

9,111

Bitcoin has 81.98% fewer commits than Polkadot

127,115

705,513

Bitcoin has 95.95% fewer repos than Polkadot

23

569

Bitcoin has 3.04X more stars than Polkadot

108,393

35,648

Bitcoin has 2.57X more watchers than Polkadot

5,574

2,172

Bitcoin on-chain revenue is 11,767X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$270.9K

$23.02

Bitcoin average transaction fee is 25X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.4366

$0.01713

Bitcoin market cap is 846X higher than Polkadot market cap

$1.703T

$2.013B

Bitcoin FDV is 718X higher than Polkadot FDV

$1.78T

$2.478B

Bitcoin Market Cap to FDV ratio is 1.18X higher than Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio

95.68%

81.22%

Bitcoin price is 71,835X higher than Polkadot price

$84,770

$1.18