Kadena KDA

At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Kadena miner today, the Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th), earns about $5.29 a day and burns $3.94 of electricity, leaving about $1.35 a day. 2 of 16 Blake2s (Kadena) 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 KA3 (173Th) ($1.35/day, 173 TH/s at 3,287 W), Bitmain Antminer KA3 (166Th) ($1.29/day, 166 TH/s at 3,154 W), Goldshell KD-BOX Pro ($0/day, 2.6 TH/s at 230 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th) at 19.0 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 KA3 (173Th) breaks even at about 6.7¢ 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 16 machines we track, 2 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 2 at 6¢ and 0 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th): about $1,102 for the machine, $1.35 profit a day, so roughly 2.2 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. On a network this small, a few extra machines also push difficulty up fast.

The Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th), at 173 TH/s, mines about 543.8 KDA a day today, worth $5.29. That is 1.0% of the network's 16.8 PH/s. The whole network mints about 52,283 KDA a day ($508.60), and every miner earns its share of hashrate.

On its own, one Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th) would find a Kadena block about once every hour 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 0.907 KDA including fees, with several blocks every second, about 52,283 KDA a day. 338.59 million of the 1.00 billion maximum are already out (34%).

Kadena mines Blake2s across 20 braided chains (Chainweb), so blocks and payouts are frequent. It is mined with ASICs such as Goldshell's KD series and Bitmain's KA3. We track 16 Blake2s (Kadena) 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. Kadena's whole network is about 16.8 PH/s, and one megawatt of Bitmain Antminer KA3 (173Th) units would add 52.59 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 Kadena 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 Kadena 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.