Ranked by Profit per Watt
Your rig has a power budget and every watt should earn the most money possible. Enter your power limit and electricity rate - CoinWarz returns the highest-profit Bitcoin, Zcash, and PoW hardware, ranked by net daily profit per watt from live network difficulty, hashrate, and prices.
This mix earns $0.07 more per day than the best single machine (1 × Bitmain Antminer Z15 PRO 840Kh/s).
Rest of the mix. 2 more models fill the remaining watts.
Runners-up. Each row is one model filled to your power limit, ranked only by Profit per Watt.
Live profitability, network charts, and a one-year scenario planner for difficulty and price.
Calculate your Bitcoin mining profitability with live data. Get profit per watt, daily revenue, break-even time, and ROI estimates.
Calculate profit →Track Bitcoin retarget cycle progress, next difficulty adjustment estimates, and view the full difficulty history.
View difficulty →Live countdown to the next Bitcoin halving, projected date, block reward schedule, and every historical halving.
Open the countdown →Monitor global SHA-256 hashrate trends, daily and weekly changes, all-time high hashrate, and network growth over time.
View hashrate →Play out the next year of mining. Adjust difficulty and BTC price across 26 difficulty retargets, see daily profit for your hashrate and power cost, and sum cumulative earnings - with the next halving applied when it falls in the window.
Ranked across every algorithm at $0.10/kWh electricity. Higher Profit per Watt means more money from the same power budget.
| # | Hardware | Mines | Power | Profit / Watt | Net / day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitmain Antminer Z15 PRO 840Kh/s Bitmain | ZEC | 2,780 W | $0.021419/W | $59.55 |
| 2 | Bitmain Antminer Z15K Bitmain | ZEC | 2,483 W | $0.014268/W | $35.43 |
| 3 | Antminer D9 1770Gh/s Bitmain | DASH | 2,839 W | $0.009552/W | $27.12 |
| 4 | Bitmain Antminer Z15 420K Bitmain | ZEC | 2,780 W | $0.009510/W | $26.44 |
| 5 | Antminer L11.HU2 35Gh/s Bitmain | LTC + DOGE + BELLS | 5,775 W | $0.001835/W | $10.60 |
Mining calculators, price charts, difficulty charts, hashrate charts, mining hardware rankings, and guides for every supported PoW coin.
Profit per Watt, daily revenue, break-even, and ROI for every supported network.
Browse all calculators →ASICs and GPUs ranked by Profit per Watt using live network difficulty, hashrate, and prices.
Browse miner rankings →Compare Bitcoin vs altcoin mining profitability side by side with your hashrate and power per algorithm.
Compare profit →Retarget cycles, next adjustment estimates, and full difficulty history for every coin.
Browse difficulty charts →Global mining power trends, daily changes, and all-time highs across every network.
Browse hashrate charts →Live USD prices and historical trends for every supported PoW coin - open any chart from one catalog.
Browse price charts →Aggregated PoW and mining headlines from across the web, timestamped to the Bitcoin block height when each story appeared.
Browse news →Guides, blog posts, and Q&A from the CoinWarz team on PoW mining, hardware, profitability, and every question miners ask.
Start learning →Tap any coin to open its USD price chart and historical trends.
Power is the one resource every miner is capped on. Two machines can earn the same dollars per day - the efficient one does it on far fewer watts, leaving headroom to add rigs, survive price dips, and stay profitable when electricity costs rise.
Algorithm, block reward, target block time, and live price for each supported coin.
| Coin | Algorithm | Block reward | Block time | Price (USD) | Tools |
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| BTC Bitcoin | Sha256 | 3.125 BTC | 600 s | $84,513 |
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| ZEC Zcash | Equihash | 1.5625 ZEC | 75 s | $1,286 |
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| XMR Monero | RandomX | 0.6 XMR | 120 s | $538.18 |
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| LTC Litecoin | Scrypt | 6.25 LTC | 150 s | $69.45 |
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| DOGE Dogecoin | Scrypt | 10,000 DOGE | 60 s | $0.0918 |
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| DASH Dash | X11 | 1.55 DASH | 157 s | $56.92 |
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| ETC Ethereum Classic | Ethash | 2.56 ETC | 13 s | $8.70 |
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| BCH Bitcoin Cash | Sha256 | 3.125 BCH | 600 s | $307.06 |
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| RVN Ravencoin | KawPow | 2,500 RVN | 60 s | $0.002295 |
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| ALPH Alephium | Blake3 | 3.06 ALPH | 8 s | $0.0803 |
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| ETHW EthereumPoW | Ethash | 2 ETHW | 13 s | $0.2810 |
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| VTC Vertcoin | Verthash | 12.5 VTC | 150 s | $0.0524 |
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| BELLS Bellscoin | Scrypt | 2 BELLS | 60 s | $0.0377 |
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| SYS Syscoin | Sha256 | 60 SYS | 60 s | $0.002126 |
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Your miner hashrate divided by the live network hashrate from full nodes or block explorers.
Block reward × (86,400 ÷ block time) × hash share. Merge-mined Scrypt (LTC + DOGE) sums both chains' rewards.
Daily coins × USD price (refreshed every 10 minutes).
Power cost = (watts ÷ 1000) × 24 × your USD/kWh rate. Pool fees = revenue × pool fee.
(Revenue − power cost − pool fees) ÷ watts - the headline metric used to rank all hardware.
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Mining difficulty is Bitcoin's automatic adjustment mechanism that keeps block times stable. At 126.23T as of August 2026, it determines how hard it is to mine each block. Here is exactly how the system recalibrates every two weeks.
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Direct answers to common mining questions - updated with live data when available.
CoinWarz is a Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining profitability platform. It provides live mining calculators, network difficulty and hashrate charts, USD price history, and ASIC hardware rankings sorted by Profit per Watt - net daily mining profit divided by power draw in watts.
CoinWarz estimates daily mining profit as: (your hashrate ÷ network hashrate) × block reward × blocks per day × coin USD price − electricity cost − pool fees. Blocks per day = 86,400 ÷ target block time in seconds. Electricity cost = (watts ÷ 1000) × 24 × USD per kWh. Pool fees = gross revenue × pool fee rate.
Bitcoin (BTC) is $84,513 USD on CoinWarz (updated Oct 2, 21:42 UTC). The SHA-256 network difficulty is 132.76T with an estimated hashrate of 939 EH/s. The current block subsidy is 3.125 BTC per block (~10 minute target block time).
Profit per Watt is net daily mining profit in USD divided by miner power draw in watts (USD/W/day). CoinWarz uses it as the headline metric for hardware rankings because electricity is the largest ongoing cost and efficiency determines real-world returns more than raw hashrate alone.
CoinWarz tracks 14 active PoW coins: Bitcoin (BTC), Zcash (ZEC), Monero (XMR), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Dash (DASH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ravencoin (RVN), Alephium (ALPH), EthereumPoW (ETHW), Vertcoin (VTC), Bellscoin (BELLS), Syscoin (SYS). Each has a mining calculator, optional difficulty/hashrate/price charts, and algorithm-matched hardware rankings.
USD prices are fetched from the CoinGecko public API every 10 minutes and stored in the CoinWarz database.
Block difficulty and estimated network hashrate come from synced full-node RPC data (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin) or trusted block explorers (Zcash via Blockchair, Monero via LocalMonero). Values are recorded per block and shown on charts and calculators.
Yes. Litecoin and Dogecoin are AuxPoW merge-mined on the Scrypt algorithm. One Litecoin hashrate share earns both LTC (≈6.25 LTC/block, 150s target) and DOGE (≈10,000 DOGE/block, 60s target) block rewards against the Litecoin network hashrate.
The most profitable miner depends on your electricity rate, coin price, and network difficulty. CoinWarz ranks all listed hardware by Profit per Watt at your USD/kWh - use the Miners page to compare ASICs across algorithms or filter by coin.
