Crypto Miner Profitability Calculator
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Daily Profit (USD):
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Monthly Profit (USD):
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Yearly Profit (USD):
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Daily Electricity Cost (USD):
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ROI (Days):
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Calculated based on daily profit and assumed hardware cost.
Understanding Crypto Mining Profitability
Cryptocurrency mining is the process by which new coins are created and new transactions are verified and added to a digital ledger (blockchain). Miners use powerful computers to solve complex mathematical problems. The first miner to solve the problem gets to add the next block of transactions to the blockchain and is rewarded with a certain amount of cryptocurrency, known as the block reward.
The profitability of crypto mining depends on several dynamic factors. This calculator helps you estimate your potential earnings and costs based on current market conditions and your mining hardware's specifications.
Key Factors in Mining Profitability:
- Hashrate: This is the speed at which your mining hardware (e.g., ASIC or GPU) can perform calculations. Measured in hashes per second (H/s), kilohashes per second (kH/s), megahashes per second (MH/s), gigahashes per second (GH/s), or terahashes per second (TH/s). A higher hashrate generally leads to more mining rewards.
- Power Consumption: Mining hardware consumes significant amounts of electricity. The efficiency of your hardware (how much hashrate you get per watt) is crucial.
- Electricity Cost: This is often the largest operational expense for miners. The cost is typically measured in dollars per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
- Cryptocurrency Price: The market value of the cryptocurrency you are mining directly impacts your earnings in fiat currency (like USD). Volatility is a major characteristic of crypto prices.
- Block Reward: The number of coins awarded to the miner who successfully adds a new block to the blockchain. This can decrease over time through events like Bitcoin's "halving."
- Network Difficulty: This is an automated adjustment that determines how difficult it is to find a new block. As more miners join the network, the difficulty increases to maintain a consistent block creation time. As miners leave, difficulty decreases.
- Pool Fee: Most miners join mining pools to smooth out their income. Pools combine the hashrate of many miners, and the rewards are shared proportionally, minus a small fee charged by the pool operator.
How the Calculator Works:
The calculator estimates profitability using the following general logic:
- Estimated Coins Mined Daily: This is calculated based on your hashrate, the network's total hashrate (derived from difficulty and block reward), and the network's block time. The formula is a simplification:
Coins Mined Per Day ≈ (Your Hashrate / Total Network Hashrate) * (24 Hours / Block Time) * Block Reward
Where Total Network Hashrate is often derived from Difficulty * 2^32 / (Block Time in seconds).
- Daily Revenue (USD): Estimated Coins Mined Daily * Current Coin Price (USD)
- Daily Electricity Cost (USD): (Power Consumption in Watts / 1000) * 24 Hours * Electricity Cost per kWh
- Daily Profit (USD): Daily Revenue (USD) – Daily Electricity Cost (USD) – Mining Pool Fees (on revenue)
- Monthly/Yearly Profit: Daily Profit multiplied by the number of days in the month/year.
- ROI (Return on Investment): This is a simplified estimate. If you input the cost of your mining hardware into the 'Hardware Cost' field, the calculator estimates how many days of profit it would take to recover that initial investment: Hardware Cost / Daily Profit (USD). If hardware cost is not entered, this field will show '–'.
Note: This calculator provides an estimate. Actual mining results can vary due to fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices, network difficulty, block rewards, and potential hardware issues. Pool fees are applied to the gross revenue before calculating net profit.
function calculateProfitability() {
// — Input Values —
var hashrateInput = document.getElementById("hashrate").value.trim();
var powerConsumption = parseFloat(document.getElementById("powerConsumption").value);
var electricityCost = parseFloat(document.getElementById("electricityCost").value);
var coinPrice = parseFloat(document.getElementById("coinPrice").value);
var blockReward = parseFloat(document.getElementById("blockReward").value);
var difficulty = parseFloat(document.getElementById("difficulty").value);
var poolFee = parseFloat(document.getElementById("poolFee").value) / 100; // Convert percentage to decimal
// var hardwareCost = parseFloat(document.getElementById("hardwareCost").value); // Optional input for ROI
// — Input Validation and Hashrate Conversion —
var hashrate = 0;
if (hashrateInput.toLowerCase().includes("mh/s")) {
hashrate = parseFloat(hashrateInput.toLowerCase().replace("mh/s", "").trim()) * 1e6;
} else if (hashrateInput.toLowerCase().includes("gh/s")) {
hashrate = parseFloat(hashrateInput.toLowerCase().replace("gh/s", "").trim()) * 1e9;
} else if (hashrateInput.toLowerCase().includes("th/s")) {
hashrate = parseFloat(hashrateInput.toLowerCase().replace("th/s", "").trim()) * 1e12;
} else if (!isNaN(parseFloat(hashrateInput))) {
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if (isNaN(hashrate) || hashrate <= 0 ||
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isNaN(electricityCost) || electricityCost < 0 ||
isNaN(coinPrice) || coinPrice <= 0 ||
isNaN(blockReward) || blockReward <= 0 ||
isNaN(difficulty) || difficulty <= 0 ||
isNaN(poolFee) || poolFee 1) {
alert("Please enter valid positive numbers for all fields. Ensure hashrate has units like MH/s or GH/s, or is a plain number (H/s).");
return;
}
// — Constants (adjust based on target blockchain, e.g., Bitcoin) —
var secondsPerDay = 86400;
var kwhPerMhPerDay = 2.5; // Example conversion factor, HIGHLY variable by ASIC/GPU
// For a more accurate calculation, we can derive power efficiency
// Let's use a more common approach based on Difficulty and Hashrate
// Estimate total network hashrate (approximate)
// Network Hashrate = Difficulty * 2^32 / Block Time in seconds
// Assuming Block Time for Bitcoin is ~600 seconds
var blockTimeSeconds = 600; // Adjust for different blockchains
var networkHashrate = difficulty * Math.pow(2, 32) / blockTimeSeconds;
// — Calculations —
// 1. Estimated Coins Mined Daily
// Share of Network Hashrate = Your Hashrate / Network Hashrate
// Coins per Day = (Your Hashrate / Network Hashrate) * (Seconds Per Day / Block Time) * Block Reward
var coinsMinedPerDay = (hashrate / networkHashrate) * (secondsPerDay / blockTimeSeconds) * blockReward;
if (isNaN(coinsMinedPerDay) || coinsMinedPerDay 0 && dailyProfitUSD > 0) {
// var roiDays = hardwareCost / dailyProfitUSD;
// document.getElementById("roiDays").textContent = roiDays.toFixed(1);
// } else {
// document.getElementById("roiDays").textContent = "–";
// }
// For now, we'll set ROI to '–' as hardware cost is not a standard input here.
document.getElementById("roiDays").textContent = "–";
document.querySelector(".result-description").style.display = 'block'; // Show description
// Add currency symbols if needed, but for crypto profitability, often raw numbers are preferred.
// Let's add USD for clarity.
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el.innerHTML = '
$' + el.textContent;
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