Compare Bitcoin vs Polkadot

Bitcoin TPS is 417X higher than Polkadot TPS

7.21 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 331X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

20.5K txns

62 txns

Bitcoin block time is 95X longer than Polkadot block time

9m 29s

6s

Bitcoin finality is 120X longer than Polkadot finality

1h

30s

Bitcoin has 31X more total transactions than Polkadot

1.42B txns

46M txns

Bitcoin was launched 11 years before Polkadot

Jan 3, 2009

May 26, 2020

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient is 97.61% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

4

168

Bitcoin has 73.16% fewer miners than Polkadot has validators

161

600

Bitcoin hashrate is 1.02K EH/s, while Polkadot stake is $820.3M

1.02K EH/s

$820.3M

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 77.83% fewer developers than Polkadot

2,014

9,085

Bitcoin has 82.13% fewer commits than Polkadot

125,432

702,087

Bitcoin has 95.86% fewer repos than Polkadot

23

556

Bitcoin has 3.03X more stars than Polkadot

108,022

35,602

Bitcoin has 2.56X more watchers than Polkadot

5,575

2,178

Bitcoin on-chain revenue is 18,419X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$248.8K

$13.51

Bitcoin average transaction fee is 42X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.3933

$0.009439

Bitcoin market cap is 1,038X higher than Polkadot market cap

$1.601T

$1.543B

Bitcoin FDV is 879X higher than Polkadot FDV

$1.675T

$1.906B

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

95.59%

80.93%

Bitcoin price is 87,858X higher than Polkadot price

$79,740

$0.9076