Word of the Day | Yottahash (YH/s)

The core concept you need to know first is Hashrate.

Hashrate is a measure of the total computing power being used to secure and process transactions on a blockchain network (like Bitcoin). You can think of it as the network's overall guessing speed. The higher the hashrate, the faster the network is working and the more secure it is.

The words hashrate, Zettahash and Yottahash are simply very large units of a measuring stick.

Imagine the entire world's population suddenly decided to start counting, all at once, in perfect synchronization.

Yottahash (YH/s)

A Yottahash is simply one thousand times bigger than a Zettahash. It's the next unit up on the scale.

A Yottahash is 1 septillion (1 with 24 zeros) guesses or calculations per second.

In simple terms, a Yottahash is a theoretical, almost unimaginable level of raw processing power.

No current public blockchain network has reached this speed yet. It is the ultimate goal for computational scale—a power so immense it makes a Zettahash look small by comparison. Think of it as the network securing itself with a computational fortress that is practically impossible to break.

https://www.dbm.academy/faq for more blockchain vocabulary.