$BITCOIN$ hashrate broke its previous record on October 12, 2023, and it has soared to an impressive 455 exahash per second (EH/s) as measured by a 7-day simple moving average (SMA), Golden Finance reported. From this perspective, on January 1, 2023, the hashrate hovered around 261 EH/s. This means a leap of 194 EH/s in less than a year.