Bitcoin vs Monero

Bitcoin leads on 0 of 1 shared benchmarks, Monero on 1. Monero wins on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live across 11 chains (19.4 min vs 57.5 min).

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Privacy-focused PoW chain using RandomX, tuned for CPU mining. 2-minute block times with ring signatures of size 16 and stealth addresses by default.

Side by side measurements

Frequently asked questions

Bitcoin vs Monero: which one is better?

Bitcoin and Monero are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Monero leads on Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live across 11 chains. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster on fastest l1 blockchain finality, live across 11 chains, Bitcoin or Monero?

On the Fastest L1 blockchain finality, live across 11 chains benchmark, Monero leads at 19.4 min versus Bitcoin at 57.5 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Bitcoin vs Monero comparison measured?

Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.

How this pair was selected

A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.