Zcash Mining Calculator
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How to use the calculator
Select your Zcash model at the top of the widget, for example from the Antminer Z15 series, or manually enter hashrate in Sol/s and power consumption in watts - Zcash measures computing power as solutions per second (Sol/s), not in H/s like most other coins, so pay attention to the correct unit when transferring datasheet values. 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 yield in ZEC and euros, the electricity costs and the break-even electricity price, i.e. the threshold up to which a device's calculation stays in positive territory. All outputs are a calculation example with no guarantee, based on current network data from Cryptohall24's own, daily updated network monitoring - hashrate and price change continuously, so every calculation is a snapshot, not a promise of earnings.
What determines Zcash yield
Zcash is mined with specialised Equihash ASICs, such as the Antminer Z15 series. Your share of the yield results from the ratio of your own hashrate to the network hashrate, multiplied by the block reward and the current price. Unlike coins with monthly or annual reduction, Zcash has a classic halving at a fixed block height: the block reward halves abruptly on a set date, with the next halving scheduled for 23 November 2028. How the network hashrate itself develops, and when a halving shifts the yield, is explained on the Zcash Network Hashrate page.
Zcash as a privacy coin - what this means for mining
In addition to ordinary, transparent transactions, Zcash optionally offers shielded transactions based on zk-SNARKs. This option changes nothing for the mining calculation itself: your ASIC solves Equihash computing tasks regardless of whether users send transparent or shielded transactions, and the block reward is paid out under the same rules. This feature is mainly relevant for assessing the network as a whole, less so for the calculation in the calculator above.
Mining at home or with hosting
Whether a Zcash miner's numbers work out depends mainly on the electricity price. Mining at home is possible with an efficient device and low-cost energy, such as surplus solar power; at typical German household electricity prices, however, the calculation quickly gets tight - also because of operating noise and waste heat in living areas. For professional operation outside your own four walls, Cryptohall24 hosts Zcash ASICs from the Antminer Z15 series in its own 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.