Is Bitcoin mining still profitable?

It depends on your hashrate, power cost, hardware efficiency, and current BTC price and difficulty. This calculator uses live network stats and your inputs — if daily profit is negative, mining loses money at those assumptions.

How is mining profitability calculated?

We estimate your fraction of global hashrate, multiply by expected block rewards per day (after pool fees), convert to USD, and subtract electricity. Transaction fees in blocks are not included unless noted.

What is network hashrate?

The total mining power securing the chain. Your reward share is approximately your hashrate divided by that total — more miners means a smaller slice per machine.

Yes. A 2% pool fee reduces gross coins by 2%. Solo mining has no pool fee but much higher variance; most home miners use pools.

How long until my ASIC pays for itself?

Enter hardware cost in USD. Payback days = purchase price ÷ daily profit when profit is positive. Halvings, difficulty jumps, or cheaper power change the real timeline.

Does this account for the next Bitcoin halving?

We use the current block reward from network data. After a halving, rewards drop — rerun the calculator with the new reward or wait for our data source to update.

Crypto Mining Profitability Calculator

Find out if mining Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, or Dogecoin is profitable with your hardware. Uses live network hashrate and prices, plus your electricity cost, pool fee, and miner specs.

Your miner

Coin to mine

Algorithm: SHA-256

Mining hardware

Hashrate

Power consumption (W)

Electricity ($/kWh)

Pool fee (%)

Hardware cost ($)

Network data

Filled with live network hashrate and prices. Edit any value to test a scenario.

Network hashrate

BTC price (USD)

Block reward (BTC)

Estimated profit

What the profit estimate means

Daily profit is coin revenue from your share of the network’s block rewards (minus pool fees) minus electricity at your kWh rate. It assumes today’s difficulty, price, and hashrate stay constant — real earnings move when difficulty adjusts, prices swing, and halvings cut block rewards. Payback days divide hardware cost by positive daily profit; if power costs more than revenue, mining is unprofitable at those settings.

Formulas we use

Your network share = your hashrate ÷ total network hashrate. Blocks per day = 86,400 ÷ block time (seconds). Coins per day = share × blocks per day × block reward × (1 − pool fee % ÷ 100). Daily revenue = coins × coin USD price (summed for merge-mined chains). Electricity per day = (watts ÷ 1,000) × 24 × $/kWh. Profit per day = revenue − electricity. Break-even days = hardware cost ÷ profit per day (when profit > 0).

Worked examples

Bitcoin ASIC (illustrative)
110 TH/s miner, network 550 EH/s, 3.125 BTC block reward, 10-minute blocks, 2% pool fee, 3,250 W, $0.08/kWh, BTC at $90,000.
Share ≈ 2×10⁻⁷ → ~0.000088 BTC/day after fee → ~$7.92 revenue. Power: 78 kWh × $0.08 = $6.24/day.
Profit about $1.68/day — payback on a $2,000 machine would be roughly 1,190 days if nothing changes.
When electricity erases profit
Same miner earning ~$7.92/day revenue but electricity at $0.12/kWh ($9.36/day).
Profit = $7.92 − $9.36 = −$2.44/day.
Mining loses money at that power price — the calculator’s break-even electricity field shows the max $/kWh where profit hits zero.
Merge-mined Litecoin + Dogecoin
Scrypt ASIC; revenue includes both LTC and DOGE block rewards from shared hashrate.
Each chain uses the same share formula; daily revenue is the sum of (coins × price) for every chain listed.
Total profit still subtracts one power bill — do not double-count electricity.

Frequently asked questions

Is Bitcoin mining still profitable?: It depends on your hashrate, power cost, hardware efficiency, and current BTC price and difficulty. This calculator uses live network stats and your inputs — if daily profit is negative, mining loses money at those assumptions.
How is mining profitability calculated?: We estimate your fraction of global hashrate, multiply by expected block rewards per day (after pool fees), convert to USD, and subtract electricity. Transaction fees in blocks are not included unless noted.
What is network hashrate?: The total mining power securing the chain. Your reward share is approximately your hashrate divided by that total — more miners means a smaller slice per machine.
Do pool fees matter?: Yes. A 2% pool fee reduces gross coins by 2%. Solo mining has no pool fee but much higher variance; most home miners use pools.
How long until my ASIC pays for itself?: Enter hardware cost in USD. Payback days = purchase price ÷ daily profit when profit is positive. Halvings, difficulty jumps, or cheaper power change the real timeline.
Does this account for the next Bitcoin halving?: We use the current block reward from network data. After a halving, rewards drop — rerun the calculator with the new reward or wait for our data source to update.

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How it works

Pick the coin to mine and a popular ASIC miner, or enter your own hashrate and power draw.
Enter your electricity price and pool fee. Add the hardware cost to see how long it takes to pay back.
Your share of the network hashrate sets how many coins you earn. Estimates exclude transaction fees and assume today's difficulty and prices stay the same.

For education only — not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.