Kryptomoe breaks mining down into small pieces. No magic. No smoke. Just some procedures, figures, and habits that help you save money and keep your cool. Our site!

Start with the reason. Miners get rewards for securing blocks. The block subsidy is now 3.125 BTC. Fees change as the mempool spikes. Some days, the fees are higher than the subsidy. Some days they don’t even show up. Every 2016 blocks, the difficulty changes. That’s around two weeks. More difficult implies fewer coins each terahash. It’s simple, yet easy to forget when there’s a lot of buzz.

Next comes hardware. Bitcoin’s GPUs are like old things at a museum. You need ASICs. Think about the S19j Pro in the 3 kW range. About 100 TH. Depending on the tune and the temperature, it uses between 29 and 34 joules per terahash. About 75 dB of noise. That’s as noisy as a vacuum sweeper. You can sort by efficiency, hash rate, and price in Kryptomoe without having to open 10 tabs.

Cost of power decides who wins. A quick rule is useful. Every 1000 watts creates around 3412 BTUs of heat every hour. A 3 kW rig turns into a small furnace. You play a different game if you pay 0.06 dollars per kWh than if you spend 0.14. The site’s calculator uses power, pool fees, hash price, and difficulty curves. You have a base case, a sunny case, and an ugly case. Sensitivity sliders show how a small change in the price of power changes profit.

The way pools work is like how diner menus work. PPS pays a consistent amount per share. FPPS adds a little amount of fees to the pot. PPLNS adds variation. Low fees can mask a lot of variation. High fees can mask reduced risk. Kryptomoe looks at real payout statistics, not just marketing. Latency is also important. Old shares hurt sales. Choose a server that is close to you or your host.