Compare Bitcoin vs Polkadot

Bitcoin TPS is 1,304X higher than Polkadot TPS

22.17 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 1,108X higher than Polkadot transaction volume

67.6K txns

61 txns

Bitcoin block time is 42X longer than Polkadot block time

4m 13s

5.99s

Bitcoin finality is 120X longer than Polkadot finality

1h

30s

Bitcoin has 31X more total transactions than Polkadot

1.43B txns

46M txns

Bitcoin was launched 11 years before Polkadot

Jan 3, 2009

May 26, 2020

Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient is 97.74% lower than Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient

4

177

Bitcoin has 73.16% fewer miners than Polkadot has validators

161

600

Bitcoin hashrate is 1.13K EH/s, while Polkadot stake is $915.8M

1.13K EH/s

$915.8M

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 77.74% fewer developers than Polkadot

2,026

9,103

Bitcoin has 82.07% fewer commits than Polkadot

126,126

703,785

Bitcoin has 95.94% fewer repos than Polkadot

23

567

Bitcoin has 3.04X more stars than Polkadot

108,221

35,636

Bitcoin has 2.56X more watchers than Polkadot

5,573

2,179

Bitcoin on-chain revenue is 7,496X higher than Polkadot on-chain revenue

$160.3K

$21.39

Bitcoin average transaction fee is 14X higher than Polkadot average transaction fee

$0.2025

$0.0148

Bitcoin market cap is 898X higher than Polkadot market cap

$1.545T

$1.719B

Bitcoin FDV is 762X higher than Polkadot FDV

$1.615T

$2.121B

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

95.64%

81.08%

Bitcoin price is 76,164X higher than Polkadot price

$76,910

$1.01