Compare Polkadot vs Bitcoin

Polkadot TPS is 99.78% lower than Bitcoin TPS

0.02 tx/s

7.58 tx/s

Polkadot max TPS is 34X higher than Bitcoin max TPS

462.7 tx/s

13.48 tx/s

Polkadot max theoretical TPS is 143X higher than Bitcoin max theoretical TPS

1,000 tx/s

7 tx/s

Polkadot transaction volume is 99.77% lower than Bitcoin transaction volume

58 txns

25.8K txns

Polkadot block time is 99.11% shorter than Bitcoin block time

5.99s

11m 20s

Polkadot finality is 99.16% shorter than Bitcoin finality

30s

1h

Polkadot has 96.81% fewer total transactions than Bitcoin

46M txns

1.45B txns

Polkadot was launched 11 years after Bitcoin

May 26, 2020

Jan 3, 2009

Polkadot Nakamoto Coefficient is 60X higher than Bitcoin Nakamoto Coefficient

181

3

Polkadot has 3.68X more validators than Bitcoin has miners

600

163

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

$1.079B

1.22K EH/s

Polkadot is Nominated Proof of Stake, while Bitcoin is PoW

Nominated Proof of Stake

Proof of Work (PoW)

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

On-chain

Off-chain

Polkadot has 4.45X more developers than Bitcoin

9,111

2,047

Polkadot has 5.55X more commits than Bitcoin

705,513

127,115

Polkadot has 25X more repos than Bitcoin

569

23

Polkadot has 67.11% fewer stars than Bitcoin

35,648

108,393

Polkadot has 61.03% fewer watchers than Bitcoin

2,172

5,574

Polkadot on-chain revenue is 99.99% lower than Bitcoin on-chain revenue

$23.02

$270.9K

Polkadot average transaction fee is 96.07% lower than Bitcoin average transaction fee

$0.01713

$0.4366

Polkadot market cap is 99.88% lower than Bitcoin market cap

$2.013B

$1.703T

Polkadot FDV is 99.86% lower than Bitcoin FDV

$2.478B

$1.78T

Polkadot Market Cap to FDV ratio is 15.1% lower than Bitcoin Market Cap to FDV ratio

81.22%

95.68%

Polkadot price is 99.99% lower than Bitcoin price

$1.18

$84,770