500 TH/s: 10 kW, a technical room, and a power bill that decides everything.
Machine efficiency assumption: 20 W/TH (recent ASICs: 17 to 25 W/TH). BTC price and network hashrate pulled live.
Collected 21/10/2026. Sources: Binance (BTCUSDT), mempool.space (hashrate, difficulty), EIA Monthly Energy Review table 9.8 for the US residential rate.
At 20 W/TH, 500 TH/s draw 10,000 W, 240 kWh a day, two to three households. This tier assumes three-phase power, serious ventilation and a room that is not a bedroom: it is where industrial mining starts, at small scale.
Five hundred terahash is still little against the network: daily output is counted in dollars, while the hardware is counted in thousands.
Remember the threshold: $0.0750/kWh. That is the highest electricity price at which 500 TH/s still break even at the current network level. Compare it with what you actually pay, taxes and delivery included, not the advertised rate.
Gross output = (500 TH/s ÷ network hashrate) × 450 BTC per day × bitcoin price. Power = 500 × 20 W × 24 h. No other variable: no promise of a rising BTC, no hidden yield. The network mines 144 blocks a day at 3.125 BTC since April 2024; the next halving cuts that reward in half.
Two things this calculation cannot predict: difficulty rises (same hashrate, less output every month) and the BTC price can fall. A pool or a hosting provider also takes a fee, not deducted here. The figure above is therefore an optimistic ceiling.
At this output the kWh price is no longer a detail, it is the job. Two cents per kWh matter more than any machine setting.
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| Tier | Gross / day | Net at $0.10/kWh |
|---|---|---|
| 1 TH/s | $0.04 | -$0.01 |
| 10 TH/s | $0.36 | -$0.12 |
| 50 TH/s | $1.80 | -$0.60 |
| 100 TH/s | $3.60 | -$1.20 |
Figures collected 21/10/2026, 20 W/TH assumption. Details on the hashrate tiers page.
The calculator accepts any hashrate, any efficiency in W/TH and any electricity price: it recomputes with the live BTC price and difficulty. The country pages compare residential rates across Europe.
Nothing here is investment advice. Mining is an asset, not a guaranteed yield: difficulty rises, the BTC price can fall, hardware wears out. Commit only what you can lose entirely.