FreeByte

Mining profitability

Revenue less power cost and pool fee, with hardware payback.

Built and reviewed by Dovanic, Founder and editor, FreeByteLast reviewed: 2026-08-18
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W
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1.5%
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Profit per day

-$1.49

Payback on hardware

Never

Electricity per day
$10.75
Pool fee per day
$0.14
Profit per month
-$45
Break-even electricity price
$0.121

Revenue less power cost and pool fee, with hardware payback.

A worked example

Starting figures

Daily revenue
$14
Power draw (W)
3,200
Electricity per kWh
$0.12
Hardware cost
$6,500

What it returns

Daily profit
$4.78
Payback
45.3 months
Daily power cost
$9.22
Monthly profit
$143.52

How to read the results

Power cost is watts times 24 hours times price per kWh; profit is revenue less fees and power.

With the defaults above, daily profit works out at $4.78.

Methodology

Power cost is watts times 24 hours times price per kWh; profit is revenue less fees and power.

  • · Difficulty and price are held constant.
  • · Excludes cooling and downtime.

Estimates only. Nothing here is financial advice. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and it gets fixed.

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