Mining Profitability Simulator
Model your mining operation before you invest. Pick a coin, add up to 4 rigs, and see how adding hashrate affects your revenue, profit, and payback period — all in real time.
How the Bitcoin Profitability Simulator works
This tool projects what a mining operation would earn after you add your own hashrate to the Bitcoin network. Every other profitability calculator we've used assumes your rig joins a static network and gets a fixed slice of the rewards — that's fine for one rig on a huge chain, but misleading if you're considering a farm of 500 rigs on a smaller coin. We dilute the network by exactly your added hashrate, so you see the realised revenue a buyer would actually receive.
The two tables, explained
Per-rig hardware & breakeven is the per-unit card. It shows what each individual rig in the scenario earns after network dilution. Change the Quantity slider and the numbers shrink — more of your own rigs competing with the same block rewards means a smaller slice per rig. Buy price + Rev − Cost gives you a live ROI in days.
Scenario · add N of each rig is the
aggregate table. Rev/day and Profit/day here are N × per-rig. Use it
to size capex against a target monthly P&L. The "Network ≈ X rigs" column
tells you how many of that specific rig would equal the entire current
Bitcoin network — a quick sanity check on whether your scenario is
realistic or heroic.
Frequently asked questions
Block rewards are a fixed pool. If you add 10× more hashrate to the network than what's already there, existing miners (including your own rigs) share the same rewards across more work. At Quantity = 1 you barely nudge a large network like Bitcoin; at Quantity = 10,000 you meaningfully dilute yourself.
We start from our consensus revenue per rig (fed by NiceHash 24h paying,
WhatToMine, and direct on-chain calculations where available), then scale it by
network / (network + added_hashrate). Cost is simply wattage × 24 ×
your entered electricity rate ÷ 1000. Profit is revenue minus cost. No pool
fees baked in — the ROI calculator tab on a specific rig page lets you
fine-tune that.
Different networks pay different amounts per unit of hashrate — network size, block reward, coin price, and emission schedule all matter. A rig that nets $3/day on one coin can net $0.50/day on another using the same algorithm. Switch coins with the picker above to compare.
Use your actual utility bill number — not the national average. Residential US rates typically sit between $0.10–$0.20/kWh; industrial or behind-the-meter sites can land at $0.04–$0.07; premium residential markets (California, parts of Europe) can exceed $0.30. The Electricity slider is scoped to this page — changing it here won't affect other rigs across the site.
The rig list is filtered to hardware that mines Bitcoin (BTC) at the Sha256 algorithm. If your rig runs a different algorithm, switch coins above to one it supports. Rigs missing fresh revenue data are also hidden to avoid misleading numbers.
The URL updates as you add rigs — it's safe to copy and paste. Sending a
friend /tools/network-impact/bitcoin/<rig-slug>/<rig-slug>
loads the exact same setup on their device. Electricity rate and Quantity are
intentionally not in the URL — they're each user's local assumptions.