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Home Bitcoin mining in Sweden: the real calculation

Household tariff in Sweden: 0.1048 EUR/kWh, all taxes included (Eurostat, 2025-S1). Reference machine: 100 TH/s at 20 W/TH. BTC price and network difficulty pulled live.

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Sources: Eurostat nrg_pc_205 (2025-S1, all taxes) · Binance (BTCEUR) · mempool.space. Recorded 27 September 2026.

Why this is structural, not a bad patch

Mining has no magic margin: it buys electricity and sells it back as bitcoin. As long as your kWh costs more than what your machine extracts from it, every day widens the gap — and the network does not help. Difficulty keeps climbing, so the same machine produces less BTC every month while drawing exactly the same watts.

A European household tariff is a retail tariff: taxes, transmission, supplier margin. A professional miner pays wholesale electricity, often a fraction of that. That difference — and nothing else — decides whether a machine is profitable. It cannot be negotiated from a domestic socket.

Household electricity prices across Europe

CountryHousehold tariff
Finland0.0875 EUR/kWh
Sweden0.1048 EUR/kWh
Bulgaria0.1447 EUR/kWh
Spain0.1500 EUR/kWh
Portugal0.1500 EUR/kWh
Italy0.2277 EUR/kWh
Hungary0.2327 EUR/kWh
Germany0.2378 EUR/kWh
Ireland0.2527 EUR/kWh
Denmark0.2768 EUR/kWh

Source: Eurostat nrg_pc_205, band 2,000–19,999 kWh, all taxes, 2025-S1. Those gaps alone explain where home mining makes sense… and where it makes none.

If you still want to mine

The route that remains: do not pay retail electricity. With a hosting provider the machine sits where power is billed at professional rates, and you advance neither the hardware, nor the room, nor the noise. On this platform the yield stays modest and variable — but it is no longer structurally negative as above.

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Check it yourself

The calculator lets you change the hashrate, the machine efficiency (W/TH) and the electricity price, with live network data. It is deliberately pessimistic: no BTC price forecast, no growth assumption. What you see above is exactly what it computes.

Nothing here is investment advice. Mining is an asset, not a guaranteed yield: difficulty rises, the BTC price can fall, hardware wears out. Only commit what you can afford to lose entirely. Some platforms are not available in every country — check before opening an account.