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Solo mining:
your real odds of finding a block.

Enter your hash rate. See your honest probability of winning the block-reward lottery per day, per year, and over a lifetime. The math is exactly like a lottery, except the odds don't change.

Default: 6.59 TH/s (roughly 4x Bitaxe Gamma Duo).

Exahashes per second. 1 EH/s = 1,000,000 TH/s.

3.125 BTC after the April 2024 halving. Next halving ~2028.

YOUR ODDS
Per day:
1 in ···
Expected time to find one block:
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THIS WEEK
0%
THIS YEAR
0%
IN 10 YEARS
0%
IF YOU FIND A BLOCK
Block reward value
$0
Annual electricity cost
$0
FOR CONTEXT

Think of this as a lottery ticket that never expires. Most solo miners never find a block. Some find one in their first week.

Network hash rate changes daily. Verify current figure at mempool.space/mining before quoting odds.