What daily mining profit remains after electricity and pool fees?
Mining profitability compares user-supplied revenue per TH/s with the electricity consumed by the hardware and the pool’s share of revenue. It deliberately avoids live network data, so every market-sensitive assumption stays visible.
Hashrate revenue minus pool and power costs
Revenue = Hashrate × Daily revenue per TH/sPower cost = (Watts ÷ 1000) × 24 × Cost per kWhPool fee = Revenue × Pool fee% ÷ 100Daily profit = Revenue − Pool fee − Power costBreak even = Hardware cost ÷ Daily profitA full day at constant TH/s and wattage
The default setup multiplies hashrate by the entered daily revenue per TH/s, deducts the pool fee, then converts watts and electricity price into a daily power cost.
Illustrative inputs; currency amounts below use USD. Rates and prices are assumptions, not live quotes.
- Hashrate (TH/s)
- 100
- Daily revenue per TH/s
- $0.05
- Power draw (watts)
- 3,000
- Electricity cost per kWh
- $0.10
- Pool fee
- 1%
- Hardware cost
- $4,000.00
Step-by-step calculation
- Daily gross revenue = 100 TH/s × 0.05 per TH/s per day = 5.
- Electricity = 3,000 ÷ 1,000 × 24 × 0.1 = 7.2 per day. Pool fee = 5 × 1 ÷ 100.
- Daily net = gross revenue − electricity − pool fee = -2.25. At this loss-making rate there is no operating-profit payback for the hardware.
Intermediate figures are rounded for reading. Results use the full calculation precision.
Why efficiency can matter more than scale
Daily profit is revenue after pool fees minus daily electricity cost. Hardware efficiency matters because a higher hashrate can still be less profitable if power use rises faster than revenue.
The user-supplied revenue assumption
The daily revenue per TH/s must come from the user and can change with coin price, network difficulty and block rewards. Treating it as fixed makes long projections unreliable.
- Daily revenue per TH/s is entered by the user and is not fetched live.
- The miner runs for the full day at the entered hashrate and wattage.
- Hardware cost, downtime, cooling, maintenance and tax are excluded.
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The following tools examine neighbouring parts of the same calculation without changing the inputs or assumptions used above.
References
Sources and conventions
- Bitcoin developer guide: mining mechanics
Background on proof-of-work and pools. Daily revenue per TH/s must come from your own current estimate.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions
Where does daily revenue per TH/s come from?
The user must supply it from their own source. The calculator has no live mining, difficulty or market-price feed.
How is electricity cost calculated?
Power in watts is converted to kilowatts, multiplied by 24 hours and then by the entered cost per kWh.
What happens if daily mining profit is zero or negative?
There is no positive hardware payback under the entered assumptions, so a meaningful break-even period cannot be produced.
Does the break-even estimate account for changing difficulty?
No. Revenue, power cost and pool fee inputs are treated as constant.
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