BTChub · Is mining paying right now?
Bitcoin mining · six gridsA Bitcoin miner makes one decision every hour: is power cheap enough to keep the machines on? BTChub answers it in arithmetic. Pick a grid hub and a machine — an Antminer S21, S21 Pro, S21 XP or your own figures — and it sets this minute’s wholesale price against the most that machine can afford to pay, from live difficulty and the Bitcoin price. Under the line, running pays. Over it, switching off saves money.
The power price is Dryos. BTChub reads real-time hub prices from the public Dryos API across six operators and averages them by the hour over the last day, so it can show how many hours sat below breakeven and what switching off would have been worth. It also checks each grid operator’s own free feed and shows whichever is newer, which is exactly how an independent site should treat a data source. Each tile on the page names its source.
Hubs on the page
- ERCOT Houston, North, West and South
- PJM Western hub, BGE, PEPCO and Dominion
- MISO Indiana
- NYISO New York City
- CAISO NP15 and SP15
- SPP North
Beside the live view, BTChub keeps a daily record of each hub’s average price against that day’s breakeven, and the early part of that history was built from Dryos too. Around the prices it lays out why power costs what it does: ERCOT’s fuel mix and net load, the Henry Hub gas price turned into a fuel cost per megawatt-hour, and the household and industrial averages from EIA, so a miner can see where a hub price sits against what a bill would be.
What we like about it: every number says where it came from and how old it is, and the page counts electricity only and says so. That is the standard we hold our own data to. If you mine, or are thinking about it, BTChub’s monitor is the quickest way we know to see whether your hub pays right now.