ILLUSTRATIVE MINING ECONOMICS / USD

Show your working.
Understand the margin.

A mining profitability calculator with visible assumptions. Explore predefined SHA-256 and Scrypt scenarios—no live prices, accounts, or entered personal data.

Not a forecast. All equipment profiles and revenue rates below are hypothetical teaching values, not current hardware specifications, market quotes, or investment recommendations.

01 / CHOOSE A SCENARIO

Change the assumptions.

Equipment assumptions

Electricity · USD per kWh

Gross revenue assumption · USD per TH/s/day

Productive runtime

Pool fee applied to gross revenue

Other modeled operating cost · USD per day

02 / INSPECT THE RESULT

SHA-256 · 200 TH/s · 3,500 W
Operating contribution / day$2.93

Before equipment, hosting, cooling, repairs, financing, and taxes.

Gross revenue$9.50
Pool fee$0.19
After-fee revenue$9.31
Energy during hashing79.80 kWh
Electricity cost$6.38
Other modeled cost$0.00
Energy-only break-even$0.1167/kWh
30 days, unchanged assumptions$87.78

Productive runtime scales both revenue and hashing energy. Zero power is assumed outside that runtime. Other modeled cost is charged for the whole day. Rounding is for display only.

THE FORMULA / NOT A BLACK BOX

Every result has a boundary.

Gross revenue = hashrate × assumed unit revenue × runtime
After-fee revenue = gross revenue × (1 − pool fee)
Energy = watts ÷ 1,000 × 24 × runtime
Energy cost = energy × electricity rate
Contribution = after-fee revenue − energy cost − other modeled cost
Energy-only break-even rate = (after-fee revenue − other modeled cost) ÷ energy

Use separate algorithm-specific revenue assumptions. Scrypt scenarios treat the stated rate as combined gross revenue; do not add merged-mining revenue again. The 30-day number only multiplies the same daily assumptions by 30.

Power excludes non-device facility energy. No capital costs, hardware degradation, variable network conditions, idle consumption, tax treatment, or resale value are modeled. The zero-cost preset does not mean those expenses disappear from a real operation.

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DEFAULT EXAMPLE / INDEPENDENTLY REPRODUCIBLE

See what changes with electricity.

These rows use 200 TH/s, 3,500 W, $0.05 per TH/s/day gross, 95% runtime, a 2% fee, and no other modeled cost.

Illustrative daily contribution at four power prices; all other assumptions held constant.
ElectricityAfter-fee revenueEnergy costContribution
$0.05/kWh$9.31$3.99$5.32
$0.08/kWh$9.31$6.38$2.93
$0.12/kWh$9.31$9.58−$0.27
$0.20/kWh$9.31$15.96−$6.65

THE NEXT USEFUL STEP

Check the assumptions behind the offer.

Purchased hashpower and owned equipment have different cost boundaries.

Review contract terms