one number decides everything

What does it cost YOU to make 1 BTX?

Every miner on earth is playing the same game: make BTX for less than it sells for. This page gives you your number in 60 seconds. Add your machines below, we run the math at live network difficulty, you get two prices. That's it.

Production cost
cost to make one sellable BTX
 
Orphan rate / 7d
share of mined blocks that lost the propagation race
Network difficulty
per-block ASERT retarget, read from our full node
Network MatMul rate
total MatMul compute securing the chain right now
Network growth / 1wk
hashrate change over the last seven days
Emission
20 BTX per block · 960 blocks per day · 19,200 BTX/day
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Step 1: Add your machines

Every machine you run or plan to buy. Renting GPUs? Pick Rent and enter what you pay per GPU per hour. Bought the hardware? Pick Own and enter watts, your power price, and what the machine cost. Mix both. Your fleet saves in this browser and reprices at live difficulty every time you come back.

Network MatMul rate prefilled live from the node ( nps). Override it to model a bigger or smaller network.

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Step 2: Know your costs

Fleet rate / share
22,000 of 397,374,296 nps
Expected BTX / day
20 BTX × 960 blocks × share
Your cost per BTX
everything counted: rent, power, and hardware, divided by BTX made per day. What one coin costs you.
Your True Mining Cost (TMC)
your cost per BTX × the GREATER of 2 or (1 + weekly growth). Miners never sell below 2× cost; that floor protects the margin, and growth can only push the bar higher. Sell below TMC and every sale shrinks you.
BTX per month
your expected monthly production at today's difficulty. Difficulty rises every week, so treat this as the ceiling, not the run rate.
Expected days per solo block
solo pays in whole blocks of 20 BTX. This is the average wait between wins for your fleet; variance means droughts run longer.
GPUs to mine 1% of daily issuance
5090-class cards at 25K nps each to own 1 in every 100 new BTX. The whole-network context for your fleet size.

The math: your share of network compute times 960 blocks a day times the block reward, minus the pool fee and the solo orphan rate. Solo pays the same expected amount in rare whole blocks; pools pay it in steady drips minus the fee. Difficulty rises, your share shrinks, your prices climb; the halving doubles them overnight. That is why the cheap window has a clock on it.

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Step 3: The treadmill, can you ever mine it back?

The part nobody shows you. The network grows, your hardware does not, so your daily BTX shrinks every week. That means your rig will only ever mine a FINITE number of coins. Sell some to cover costs, and the question becomes: can you mine them back before growth eats your share? Two inputs, straight answers.

Growth measured by the node itself: average network hashrate now versus 7 days of blocks ago, 116.3% per week. Override it to stress test.

Lifetime yield left
total BTX this exact fleet can EVER still mine at 116.3%/week growth. Finite. Every coin sold comes out of this number.
You keep, selling 50%
BTX kept for life at that sell rate, shrinking with growth. The stack you actually end with.
Hold-50 price
2 × TMC. Mine two coins, sell one at this price, and that one sale pays for both; the coin you keep costs you nothing. Below this price, selling half no longer covers the bill and your stack shrinks.

Formulas in the open: daily decay d = (1+g)1/7. Lifetime = today's BTX/day ÷ (1 − 1/d). TMC = cost × max(2, 1+g). Hold-50 = 2 × TMC. Nobody else publishes this math; check it against /history.json.

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Step 4: The Sell Tax, what selling really costs you

Your spreadsheet says a sale at today's price is profit. The treadmill disagrees. The coin you sell has to be replaced by mining on NEXT week's network, and that replacement cost is your TMC from above. Sell Tax = your sale price − your TMC: what the market pays you against what replacing the coin costs you. Positive means the sale pays for its own replacement. Negative, in red, means the sale does not cover replacement and you shrank yourself. Blank sale price uses the live model; type your real OTC price and see what that discount actually does. It reprices live with your fleet, the measured growth, and your price.

Using the live model price, $1,022.66. Selling OTC at something else? Type YOUR price and watch the tax move.
Sale price (model)
live from the open btxprice.com valuation model, refreshed every 15 minutes
Your TMC
your all-in cost per BTX × max(2, 1 + weekly growth), from your fleet above. What replacing a sold coin actually costs you.
Your Sell Tax
sale price − TMC, per coin sold. Negative and red means the sale does not cover replacing the coin.
The verdict
Add machines and a sale price above; your verdict prints here.

Formula: Sell Tax = sale price − TMC. Positive: the sale pays for its own replacement. Negative, in red: you shrank yourself. Blank sale price uses the live model. Uses YOUR fleet's all-in cost and the node-measured growth from the steps above; change any input and this reprices instantly.

unit economics from live network data · your fleet saves in this browser · auto-refreshes every 15 minutes