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What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market in 2025

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

Firsthand cost (Nigeria, 3.9¢) opened 2025 at $21,764 (January 1, 2025) and closed at $29,568 (December 31, 2025), up 35.9%. The high was $31,206 on November 2, 2025 and the low $21,451 on February 5, 2025.

Firsthand cost (Nigeria, 3.9¢), month by month in 2025

MonthMonth end
January 2025$21,489
February 2025$21,912
March 2025$22,676
April 2025$24,405
May 2025$25,250
June 2025$23,363
July 2025$25,410
August 2025$25,868
September 2025$28,412
October 2025$31,145
November 2025$29,878
December 2025$29,568

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.

Other years: 2026 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2025: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Miner prices per terahash · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price

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