Ethereum Classic ETC

At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Ethereum Classic miner today, the Jasminer X44-P, earns about $12.52 a day and burns $3.06 of electricity, leaving about $9.46 a day. 14 of 41 Ethash miners we track are profitable at that price. Set your own power price above and the whole page recalculates.

Ranked by profit per day at 5¢/kWh: Jasminer X44-P ($9.46/day, 23.4 GH/s at 2,550 W), Bombax Miner EZ-100 ($4.57/day, 15.5 GH/s at 3,100 W), Bombax ez100 ($3.93/day, 12.5 GH/s at 2,300 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Jasminer X44-P at 109.0 J/GH; cheap power favours raw hashrate, expensive power favours efficiency, so the order changes with your price.

At today's price and difficulty the Jasminer X44-P breaks even at about 20¢ per kWh: above that it costs more to run than it earns. Pool fees (usually 1-4%), cooling and any hosting margin come on top, so plan with a buffer. Of the 41 machines we track, 24 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 13 at 6¢ and 7 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer E11 (9.5Gh): about $1,908 for the machine, $2.12 profit a day, so roughly 2.5 years if price and difficulty stayed where they are today. In practice difficulty usually rises as new machines ship, so real payback is longer; a falling coin price stretches it further, a rally shortens it.

The Jasminer X44-P, at 23.4 GH/s, mines about 1.546 ETC a day today, worth $12.52. That is 0.015% of the network's 151 TH/s. The whole network mints about 10,132 ETC a day ($82,072), and every miner earns its share of hashrate.

On its own, one Jasminer X44-P would find an Ethereum Classic block about once every 1 days on average, and luck can stretch that a long way. With blocks this frequent, even a single machine gets regular rewards; pools still smooth the payouts. FPPS and PPS+ pools pay a fixed amount per share (fees often 2-4%), PPLNS pools pay out only when the pool finds a block (often 0-2%, but lumpier).

Right now each block pays about 1.589 ETC including fees, with a block every 14 seconds on average, about 10,132 ETC a day. 153.61 million of the 210.70 million maximum are already out (73%). Under ECIP-1017 the block reward drops 20% every 5 million blocks (roughly every two years), and total supply tops out around 210.7 million ETC.

Ethash (Etchash on Ethereum Classic, which slowed the growth of its dataset in 2020) is memory-hard: every hash reads from a dataset of several gigabytes (the DAG) that keeps growing. GPUs need enough memory to hold it; Ethash ASICs (Bitmain Antminer E9 series, Jasminer) are far more efficient. The same machines mine Ethereum Classic, EthereumPoW and OctaSpace. We track 41 Ethash machines; judge them by J/GH (efficiency) against your power price, then by price per GH, cooling type and the warranty and repair options where you will run them.

One megawatt of power runs about 392 Jasminer X44-P units. At 5¢/kWh that is roughly $112,733 a month in profit before pool fees, cooling overhead and staff. That fleet would add about 6% to the network's hashrate, so once difficulty catches up every machine earns roughly that much less. Site profit is very sensitive to the power price: every 1¢/kWh costs about $7,296 a month at one megawatt. CryptoSites.io lists powered land, container farms and hosting with the power price on every listing.

Pick a machine for your power price (see the table above), then sort out power and cooling: most ASICs need 200-277 V at 10-30 A each, hydro models usually 380-415 V three-phase and a cooling loop, and air-cooled units are too loud for a home. Set up an Ethereum Classic wallet, point the machine at a pool, and watch temperatures in the first days. If you don't have cheap power and space, hosting is the usual route: a host runs the machine for an all-in price per kWh. CryptoSites.io lists both powered sites and hosting.