Is Bitcoin Mining Worth it in 2026? Live Calculator & Reality

Is mining worth it in 2026?

The short answer

Bitcoin mining pays off when three conditions align: an electricity price well below household rates, efficient hardware, and a location where noise and heat are not a problem — or where the heat is actually used. Miss one and it gets tight. Miss two and you lose money regardless of the Bitcoin price.

Honestly: at 30 ct/kWh household electricity with a miner in the basement and no heat reuse, the answer is usually no. We tell customers that before they order.

The calculation that matters

Take your unit's power draw in kilowatts and multiply by 24 — that is daily consumption in kWh. Multiply by your electricity price for daily cost. Against that stands daily revenue at current difficulty and price. The difference is your daily profit; purchase price divided by that difference is payback in days.

Example: 3 kW × 24 h = 72 kWh per day. At 10 ct/kWh that is 7.20 € daily, at 25 ct/kWh it is 18 €. That spread decides profit or loss — not the datasheet hashrate.

What most calculations leave out

  • Rising network difficulty: revenue per terahash declines over time
  • The halving: the block reward halves roughly every four years
  • Pool fees, typically 1–2 % of revenue
  • Wear, fan replacement, occasional PSU or hashboard swaps
  • Tax treatment of the revenue — we have a separate guide on that

When it clearly works

Mining is clearly profitable in three setups: with surplus solar that would otherwise be exported for a few cents; with heat reuse that replaces real heating costs; and in hosting at industrial rates of 5–9 ct/kWh. In all three the lever is the energy source, not the hardware.

Run your own scenario through our mining calculator before ordering. If it does not work, we would rather tell you first.

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.