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Revenue per TH/s

A metric showing how much BTC/USD a miner earns for each terahash per second of hashing power, indicating profitability.

Revenue per TH/s (also called "hashprice") is the daily revenue a miner earns per terahash per second of hash rate. It's the headline economic indicator for Bitcoin mining: a single number that tells you whether mining is currently profitable for typical hardware and electricity costs.

The formula:

revenue per TH/s per day = (subsidy + fees per block) * blocks per day / network hash rate in TH/s

As of 2026 the math roughly works out to:

  • Subsidy + fees: ~3.125 BTC + ~0.3 BTC = ~3.4 BTC per block
  • Blocks per day: ~144
  • Network hash rate: ~700 EH/s = 700,000,000 TH/s

So daily revenue per TH/s is roughly 3.4 * 144 / 700,000,000 = ~7 * 10^-7 BTC per TH/s per day, or about $0.04-0.06 per TH/s per day at recent BTC prices.

What miners actually look at:

  • Hashprice trend. Tracked daily on Hashrate Index, Luxor, Compass Mining and similar dashboards.
  • Break-even electricity cost. A modern S21 ASIC at ~15 J/TH consuming ~24 hours of electricity at $0.05/kWh costs ~$0.029/day to run. At $0.05 hashprice that's a positive margin; at $0.03 hashprice it's losing money.
  • Halving impact. Each halving cuts the subsidy in half, immediately halving hashprice unless fees rise to compensate. The post-April-2024 halving compressed margins significantly; post-2028 will compress them further.
  • Fee-share trend. As subsidy declines, fees become a larger proportion of revenue. Hashprice in the 2030s will increasingly depend on fee-market conditions rather than the predictable subsidy schedule.

The metric is most useful for break-even analysis and timing hardware upgrades. A modern efficient ASIC stays profitable at lower hashprice than an older inefficient one; the ratio between current hashprice and a given ASIC's break-even hashprice tells you whether to keep mining or power down.

Key takeaways

  • Crucial for evaluating mining returns relative to hardware capacity
  • Fluctuates with BTC price, difficulty adjustments, and network hash rate
  • Used by miners for ROI calculations on hardware/electricity

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