BTC cost multiple vs QUAI
Cost savings vs BTC
QUAI PoW budget share
QUAI market share
Capacity-cost efficiency
SOAP offset · 30d
QUAI price
Days averaged
Daily security cost by network
Scale
Security cost equals daily mining subsidy rewards times USD close. Click a label to hide or show that network; the y-axis recalculates from the visible lines and selected scale.
Tracked PoW security-cost table
| Network | Throughput | Daily security cost | Annualized spend | Subsidy/day | Price | Ratio vs BTC | Budget share | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quai QUAI · KawPoW, SHA, and Scrypt | 50,000 TPS | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Bitcoin BTC · SHA-256 | 7 TPS | — | — | 450 BTC | — | — | — | — |
Litecoin LTC · Scrypt | 56 TPS | — | — | 3.6K LTC | — | — | — | — |
Bitcoin Cash BCH · SHA-256 | 100 TPS | — | — | 450 BCH | — | — | — | — |
Dogecoin DOGE · Scrypt | 33 TPS | — | — | 14.4M DOGE | — | — | — | — |
Ravencoin RVN · KawPoW | 116 TPS | — | — | 1.8M RVN | — | — | — | — |
Kaspa KAS · kHeavyHash | 400 TPS | — | — | 1.4M KAS | — | — | — | — |
SOAP security expansion
QUAI today
QUAI Mining Rewards—
Current SOAP subsidies shown
Current SOAP reach
QUAI via SOAP—
BTC-scale SHA reach
BTC-scale SOAP—
Transactions supported per $1 paid to miners
This is a capacity-efficiency view, not observed traffic. Linear scale is intentional; every bar is labeled because the gap is too large for most non-QUAI bars to stay visually prominent.
Security cost per capacity transaction
Bitcoin
BTC- Capacity
- 7 TPS
- Tx/day
- 604.8K
- Cost/tx
- —
- kWh/tx eq.
- —
Quai
QUAI- Capacity
- 50,000 TPS
- Tx/day
- 4.32B
- Cost/tx
- —
- kWh/tx eq.
- —
Awaiting price and reward data for the capacity comparison.
SOAP offset summary
Sep 2, 26 to Oct 2, 26
Mining Rewards
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Burned
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Rewards minus burned
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Burn offset—
QUAI share of tracked PoW
Daily security budget share—
Tracked total: —
Market cap share—
Tracked total: —
QUAI daily security spend: — from — average daily rewards.
QUAI Mining Rewards vs SOAP burn since SOAP
Window
Cumulative Mining RewardsCumulative SOAP burnNet (rewards - burned)
Model assumptions and price freshness
Freshness
- External markets
- loading
- QUAI price
- —
- Electricity assumption
- $0.05/kWh
| Network | Reward model | Capacity model | Last price update |
|---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin BTC · SHA-256 | Halving schedule by date; currently 3.125 BTC subsidy, 144 target blocks/day. Fees excluded. | 7 TPS | — |
Litecoin LTC · Scrypt | Halving schedule by date; currently 6.25 LTC subsidy, 576 target blocks/day. Fees excluded. | 56 TPS | — |
Bitcoin Cash BCH · SHA-256 | Halving schedule by date; currently 3.125 BCH subsidy, 144 target blocks/day. Fees excluded. | 100 TPS | — |
Dogecoin DOGE · Scrypt | 10,000 DOGE subsidy, 1-minute target blocks. Fees excluded. | 33 TPS | — |
Ravencoin RVN · KawPoW | Halving schedule by date; 2,500 RVN before the 2026 halving, 1,250 RVN after. Fees excluded. | 116 TPS | — |
Kaspa KAS · kHeavyHash | Approximate smooth annual-halving emission curve, anchored at 1.7M KAS/day on 2026-07-02. Fees excluded. | 400 TPS | — |