Hashrate, Power Draw & Mining Yield
Hashrate & Power Draw (per miner)
Firmware and PSU upgrades slightly raise a miner’s hashrate while lowering its power draw. Overclocking works the other way: it noticeably raises hashrate, but also pushes up power draw, heat and wear. Wear itself lowers hashrate over time.
Summary: Overclocking boosts hashrate but also power draw, heat and wear. Efficiency upgrades (PSU/firmware) lower power draw and slightly raise hashrate. An overheated miner performs noticeably worse while drawing more power.
The Factors in Detail
| Factor | Effect on hashrate | Effect on power draw |
|---|---|---|
| Custom firmware (max 2 tiers) | +3% per tier | −5% per tier |
| Platinum PSU (max 3 tiers) | – | −7% per tier |
| Overclock (max 3 tiers) | +12% per tier | +10% per tier |
| Overheated | −45% | +15% |
| Wear | drops progressively: about −23% at 50% wear, −60% at 100% | – |
A miner in storage, idle, offline, failed or uninstalled delivers no hashrate and draws no power. More on the upgrades: Miner Upgrades.
Mining Yield & Global Difficulty
Your mining yield depends on your total hashrate, elapsed time, and the current difficulty — more hashrate and more time mean more BTC, while higher difficulty lowers the yield per TH/s.
Global difficulty rises with the sum of hashrate of ALL active players worldwide — the more everyone mines together, the less each player earns per TH/s, exactly like the real Bitcoin network.
Difficulty itself fluctuates over time in a daily and weekly wave — you can’t influence this value. Global events also shift the difficulty for short periods.
More Hashrate Pays Off — But Not Linearly
Yield grows more slowly than your hashrate: if you double your total hashrate, you get roughly 57% more BTC, not 100%. This keeps progression balanced. Global difficulty can additionally dampen yield by up to 35% when the hashrate of all active players (last 7 days) is very high.
Your farm’s power draw, on the other hand, rises with every running miner — so check whether an additional miner still pays off after power and maintenance costs. More on that: Power & Energy Contracts.
More on temperature and wear, which also feed into effective hashrate: Temperature & Wear.