Does mining this chain pay?
Put in your hardware, your power price and what the machine costs you. This works out what it earns, what it burns, whether the two leave anything over — and when it would pay itself back. Every network figure comes from this pool's own node, live.
Your machine
Pick one, or set the numbers yourself. Hashrate and watts come from the maker's data sheet.
Household rates, so you can see a result before you go looking for your bill: the middle of 51 US states, of the EU-27, and of the Asian countries where mining actually happens. On a commercial contract you are nearer 0.13 USD, 0.17 EUR and 0.12 USD. Put your own in if you know it — it is the number that decides everything here.
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Enter your numbers above.
- Mined per day
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- after the 1 % pool fee
- That is worth
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- at the price below
- Power costs
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- per day
- Pays itself back
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- at today's difficulty
Above the first, or below the second, the machine costs more to run than it brings in.
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| The network right now | Value |
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| Difficulty | — |
| Block subsidy | — |
| Block height | — |
| Blocks per day (measured) | — |
| Next difficulty retarget in | — |
| Your share of the network | — |
| Solo: average wait for a block | — |
The arithmetic
A share or a block at difficulty D costs D × 232 hashes on average — that is what difficulty means. Everything else follows:
blocks per day = your hashrate × 86,400 ÷ (difficulty × 2³²) subsidy per day = blocks per day × block subsidy solo wait = difficulty × 2³² ÷ your hashrate
Note what is not in there: the number of blocks the network produces per day. It does not belong. You earn in proportion to the work you do against the difficulty, and a network that finds blocks faster simply means more blocks to take a share of. Calculators that start from "144 blocks a day" bake in an assumption that is currently wrong by a factor of four.
Why blocks are arriving faster than every ten minutes
The chain forked on 30 August 2026 and its hashrate has grown faster than the difficulty can follow. Difficulty only retargets every 2016 blocks, and until it does, the same difficulty is being met far more often than the ten-minute target — right now one about every —.
For a miner this is straightforwardly good while it lasts: the same hashrate earns the same share of a subsidy that is being paid out roughly four times as often as the design intends. It will correct. When the retarget lands, difficulty rises to match the hashrate and earnings per unit of hashrate fall accordingly. The countdown is in the table above.
This is also why a figure like "network hashrate" is ambiguous on a young chain. Derived from the difficulty it is about —; measured from how quickly blocks are actually arriving it is —. Both are true statements about different things, and only the second one describes what is really out there hashing.
What this does not tell you
There is no price in this calculator and no electricity cost, on purpose. A coin price on a young fork with thin liquidity changes faster than any page can honestly quote, and your power tariff is yours. What is here is the part that is calculable: how much BTC the chain will hand you for a given amount of work. Multiply by whatever you believe the rest is.
The figures update with the live network difficulty and the pool's own node. Pool fee is 1% of the subsidy; the block's transaction fees stay with the pool. Start mining · which hardware works · solo mining
Common questions
How much BTC can I mine per day?
Your expected daily subsidy is your hashrate multiplied by 86,400 seconds, divided by the network difficulty times 2^32, multiplied by the block subsidy. At a difficulty of 285 million and a subsidy of 3.125 BTC, a 4.3 TH/s Innosilicon S11 SiaMaster earns roughly 0.95 BTC a day before the pool fee. The calculator on this page does it with the live difficulty.
Why is the chain producing blocks faster than every ten minutes?
Because the difficulty has not caught up with the hashrate. The chain forked on 30 August 2026 and hashrate has grown faster than the 2016-block retarget can follow, so blocks currently arrive roughly every 150 seconds instead of 600. Mining earns correspondingly more until the next retarget corrects it.
How long until I find a block solo?
On average, the network difficulty times 2^32 divided by your hashrate. That is the mean, not a schedule: half of all finders wait longer than the average, and a solo miner can go far past it without anything being wrong.