Handshake HNS

At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Handshake miner today, the Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th), earns about $9.64 a day and burns $2.49 of electricity, leaving about $7.15 a day. 3 of 11 Handshake 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: Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th) ($7.15/day, 9 TH/s at 2,079 W), Goldshell HS6 ($0.71/day, 4.3 TH/s at 3,250 W), Goldshell HS-BOX 2 ($0.01/day, 460 GH/s at 400 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th) at 231.0 J/TH; cheap power favours raw hashrate, expensive power favours efficiency, so the order changes with your price.

At today's price and difficulty the Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th) breaks even at about 19¢ 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 11 machines we track, 10 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 1 at 6¢ and 1 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th): about $850.00 for the machine, $7.15 profit a day, so roughly 4 months 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. On a network this small, a few extra machines also push difficulty up fast.

The Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th), at 9 TH/s, mines about 1,003 HNS a day today, worth $9.64. That is 1.4% of the network's 650 TH/s. The whole network mints about 74,099 HNS a day ($712.47), and every miner earns its share of hashrate.

On its own, one Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th) would find a Handshake block about once every 12 hours 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 500.0 HNS including fees, with a block every 10 minutes on average, about 74,099 HNS a day. 674.50 million of the 2.04 billion maximum are already out (33%).

Handshake's proof-of-work combines Blake2b and SHA-3. It is mined with ASICs such as Goldshell's HS series. We track 11 Handshake machines; judge them by J/TH (efficiency) against your power price, then by price per TH, cooling type and the warranty and repair options where you will run them.

Not on its own. Handshake's whole network is about 650 TH/s, and one megawatt of Bitmain Antminer HS3 (9Th) units would add 4.33 PH/s, several times the network. Difficulty would jump and the earnings shown here would melt away. Large sites point their machines at the biggest coin for the algorithm and treat small coins like Handshake as a side bet for a few units.

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 a Handshake 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.