Bitcoin Mining Guide 2026 – Calculator & Comparison

Where to start

New to mining? Read in this order: first the honest question of whether mining pays off at your electricity price, then the beginner guide for hardware, pool and wallet, then the ASIC comparison for model choice, and finally the German tax guide.

All guides use concrete numbers from our own stock — prices, hashrates and consumption of machines we actually sell, not datasheets for models nobody can get.

The metrics that keep coming back

• J/TH — efficiency: drives your running electricity cost
• €/TH — price per terahash: drives the capital you tie up
• kWh/day — power draw × 24: the basis of every cost calculation
• Break-even tariff: the price at which a machine turns a loss
• Difficulty: rises over time and lowers revenue per terahash

Calculators instead of gut feeling

For the actual decision use the mining calculator and the electricity cost calculator. Both work with your own inputs — tariff, runtime, machine — and return daily, monthly and yearly figures including payback time.

Shipping, warehouse and delivery time

Stocked units ship within 2–4 business days from our warehouse in Bavaria, Germany. Because the hardware is already imported and cleared inside the EU, there is no import VAT, no customs paperwork and no waiting for air freight from Asia. Models sourced directly from the factory show their own delivery time on the product page.

We ship insured to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the rest of the EU. Orders above 1,000 € ship free within Germany, and express shipping is available for stocked units.

Payment, invoice and warranty

You can pay by bank transfer, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or cryptocurrency. Every order comes with a proper invoice showing VAT. EU business customers with a valid VAT ID are invoiced at 0 % under the reverse-charge scheme, and we can switch your session to B2B mode with net prices.

New and used miners are covered by statutory warranty under EU law. Used units are tested, cleaned and shipped with a logged hashrate; the exact scope is stated on each product page.

Advice before you buy

We help you check electricity tariff, power connection, cooling, noise and realistic payback before you order — including when the honest answer is that a machine will not pay off at your kWh price. Send us your electricity cost and the planned location and we will run the numbers with you.