Zephyr Protocol ZEPH

At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Zephyr Protocol miner today, the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M), earns about $23.71 a day and burns $2.97 of electricity, leaving about $20.74 a day. 2 of 2 RandomX 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 X9 (1M) ($20.74/day, 1 MH/s at 2,472 W), Bitmain Antminer X5 ($3.41/day, 212 kH/s at 1,350 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) at 2472.0 J/MH; 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 X9 (1M) breaks even at about 40¢ 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 2 machines we track, 2 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 2 at 6¢ and 2 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M): about $5,449 for the machine, $20.74 profit a day, so roughly 9 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 X9 (1M), at 1 MH/s, mines about 80.7 ZEPH a day today, worth $23.71. That is 2.8% of the network's 36.02 MH/s. The whole network mints about 2,900 ZEPH a day ($851.96), and every miner earns its share of hashrate. With one machine that big a slice, every machine added lowers what the others earn: this network can only absorb a handful.

On its own, one Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) would find a Zephyr Protocol 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 3.927 ZEPH including fees, with a block every 2 minutes on average, about 2,900 ZEPH a day. 10.33 million of the 10.33 million maximum are already out (100%).

RandomX (Monero since November 2019) runs random programs in a virtual machine and keeps a dataset of about 2 GB in memory per mining instance. That favours general-purpose CPUs with large caches and many cores; AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips are popular. RandomX machines appeared in 2025, but CPUs are still a big part of the network. Tari (XTM) can be merge-mined alongside Monero. We track 2 RandomX machines; judge them by J/MH (efficiency) against your power price, then by price per MH, cooling type and the warranty and repair options where you will run them.

Not on its own. Zephyr Protocol's whole network is about 36.02 MH/s, and one megawatt of Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) units would add 404 MH/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 Zephyr Protocol 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 Zephyr Protocol 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.