A zettahash is a thousand exahashes, and the network had reached its first exahash per second less than a decade earlier. Because hashrate is inferred from block times and difficulty rather than measured directly, trackers placed the crossing anywhere from late March to 5 April.
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Network hashrate passes one zettahash
Bitcoin's estimated hashrate crossed 10^21 hashes per second for the first time.
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