Running cost calculator
The purchase price is the small number. Pick a miner, enter what you pay per kWh, and see the real cost of leaving it on — alongside the odds of it ever paying you back.
1. Pick your hardware
2. Set your electricity price
Running costs across the site use this rate. The default is a typical household tariff — check your own bill for the real number.
3. What it costs to run
4. What you might get back
Solo mining — the lottery
You keep the entire block if you find one, and nothing if you do not.
- Expected time to find a block
- 14.32K years
- Odds within one year
- 1 in 14.32K
- Chance within one year
- <0.01%
- Payout if you win
- $203,870
- One year of electricity
- $27
Pool mining — the steady version
Same hardware, same hashrate, paid out proportionally instead of all or nothing.
- Expected BTC per day
- 60 sats
- Revenue per month
- $1.19
- Electricity per month
- $2.24
- Net per month
- -$1.05
- Hardware payback
- Never at this rate
At $0.17/kWh this setup loses money on electricity alone. It burns $27 a year to mine about $14 of BTC. That is fine if you want the hardware, the heat or the lottery ticket — just go in knowing the expected financial outcome is negative.
Calculations use the live network difficulty (1.262e+14), the current 3.125 BTC block subsidy plus an assumed 0.03 BTC of fees, and a BTC price of $64,618. Difficulty rises over time, so long-horizon figures are optimistic. Not financial advice — read the guide before buying.