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What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

The electricity behind one mined bitcoin at our hosting rates against a typical 7.5¢ industrial rate, on the same machine.

$26,491 on Sep 21, 2026, against $28,427 a year earlier.

The same machine — a current 13.5 J/TH air miner — mining the same network on the same day, with only the price of electricity changed. The green line is our Nigeria rate of 3.9¢ per kWh, the blue is the 6¢ our UAE and Argentina sites run at, and the red is 7.5¢, which is a normal industrial hosting rate almost anywhere else.

The gap between green and red is the entire business. Every one of those lines mines exactly the same number of coins; the only thing that differs is what the power cost, and at the bottom of a cycle that difference decides who is still mining and who has switched off.

Where the bitcoin price (overlaid) sits above a line, that machine at that rate is producing coins for less than they cost to buy. The steps are halvings cutting the subsidy in two; the drift upward between them is the network growing. Electricity only — hardware, freight and hosting margin are not in these lines, and neither is anyone else’s.

Firsthand cost (Nigeria, 3.9¢), month by month

MonthFirsthand cost (Nigeria, 3.9¢)
2025-10$31,145
2025-11$29,878
2025-12$29,568
2026-01$28,264
2026-02$28,837
2026-03$26,736
2026-04$27,051
2026-05$27,755
2026-06$26,680
2026-07$25,148
2026-08$25,157
2026-09$26,491

Questions

What is what a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market today?
$26,491 as of September 22, 2026, up 5.3% over the last 30 days.
How has it changed over the past year?
A year ago it was $28,427; today it is $26,491, a change of -6.8%.
What is the highest firsthand cost (nigeria, 3.9¢) on record?
$31,206, on November 2, 2025.
How is this chart calculated?
The same machine — a current 13.5 J/TH air miner — mining the same network on the same day, with only the price of electricity changed. The green line is our Nigeria rate of 3.9¢ per kWh, the blue is the 6¢ our UAE and Argentina sites run at, and the red is 7.5¢, which is a normal industrial hosting rate almost anywhere else.

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Updated daily. Latest data 2026-09-22.

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