N4CR
Supreme [H]ardness
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network hash rate is 26,000 gh/s (26000000mh's) the fastest cards will only do around 30mh/s (r9 290's and rx 480's) 26000000/30=866,000 and I rounded up because I garentee the majority of the network isnt running at 30mh/s (you have to have a 8gb or flashed overclocked card to do this)
edit: i also negligated nvidia cards because i HIGHLY dought they would make up any significant portion of this.
Did some mining a few times over the years with various coins and these numbers check out with my experience. This is why I posted last week, that steam surveys mean shit when you have factors like this to contend with, but most don't understand or mine, especially Nvidia crowd/fans/stock shills so they are oblivious to this. Depending on the cycle, architecture and efficiency, a large chunk of those cards can be top of the range AMD e.g. in past 7970, 290X etc. They are still popular cards (290 and up) and sought after.
This is why people are worried that Vega will kick ass and make everything in use currently, obsolete, leading to huge pressure on the retail market. Imagine half a million people trying to get hold of a 1080Ti on launch..