Mining Profitability Calculator

Block Reward is the number of coins paid to whoever mines a block -- a fixed, protocol-defined quantity that changes only at scheduled events like a halving. Coin Price is the current market value of each of those coins in US dollars, which moves constantly and independently of the reward schedule. Multiplying your expected coin production by the current price is the only way to get a dollar figure -- reporting the coin quantity alone as 'revenue' would round to essentially nothing once displayed as a rounded dollar amount.

Network Difficulty measures how hard it is, on average, to find a valid block across the entire network -- it rises as more total mining hardware competes for the same fixed schedule of block rewards. Your hashrate represents a fixed slice of that total competition, so as difficulty climbs, that same slice earns a proportionally smaller share of the network's total block rewards, which is exactly why Daily Revenue moves in the opposite direction from Network Difficulty.

Break-Even Days is reported as -1 whenever Daily Profit is zero or negative, since a hardware investment mathematically never recoups itself if it's losing money every day rather than earning toward payback. A negative Daily Profit typically means your electricity cost exceeds what your hashrate can earn at the current coin price and network difficulty -- raising the coin price, finding cheaper electricity, or upgrading to more efficient hardware are the usual ways to flip it positive.

Both figures change essentially continuously in the real network -- difficulty readjusts roughly every two weeks based on total network hashrate, and coin price can move meaningfully within minutes. Hardcoding either as a fixed 'current' value would make the calculator's results stale the moment those figures moved, so this tool asks you to check a blockchain explorer and a live price tracker and enter the current numbers yourself for an accurate estimate.