Handshake Mining Calculator
Network Data
How to use the calculator
Select your Handshake model at the top of the widget, for example the Antminer HS3, or enter hashrate and power consumption manually. Then enter your actual electricity price per kilowatt-hour - this is the lever with the greatest influence on the result. The calculator then shows you the estimated daily revenue in HNS and euros, the power costs and the break-even electricity price, i.e. the threshold up to which a device is calculated to be in profit. All figures are a calculation example with no guarantee, based on current network data according to Cryptohall24 - hashrate and price change constantly, so every calculation is a snapshot, not a promise of future earnings.
What determines Handshake earnings
Handshake is mined with specialised Blake2b+SHA3 ASICs, such as the Antminer HS3. Your share of the reward results from the ratio of your own hashrate to the network hashrate, multiplied by the emission and the current price. Handshake does not secure a pure payment network but a decentralised naming system: top-level domains are auctioned on-chain through the network, with bids placed in HNS. How the network hashrate develops around this relatively small network is explained on the Handshake network hashrate page.
Efficiency and electricity price as key levers
Besides network development, two factors determine how well a Handshake miner performs: the device's efficiency in joules per terahash and the electricity price used in the calculation. Older ASIC generations consume noticeably more power for the same hashrate than current models - the calculator makes this difference directly visible through the efficiency figure in joules per hashrate unit.
Mining at home or with hosting
Whether a Handshake miner pays off depends above all on the electricity price. Mining at home can work with an efficient device and cheap energy, for example surplus solar power; at typical German household electricity prices, on the other hand, the calculation quickly becomes tight - also because of operating noise and waste heat in living spaces. For professional operation outside your own four walls, Cryptohall24 hosts Handshake ASICs of the Antminer HS3 type in our partner data centres. Simply enter the electricity price relevant to you in the calculator to run your scenario. More on this at mining hosting at Cryptohall24.