RandomX economics desk

Mine, or buy?

Price a CPU as an XMR-producing asset. Power, depreciation, pool fees, residual value and difficulty growth remain explicit rather than disappearing inside a headline ROI number.

Mining profitability

RANDOMX

Hashrate (H/s)

Load watts

Electricity $/kWh

Hardware cost $

Amortization months

Pool fee %

Enter your machine economics.

Mine vs buy

SCENARIO

Total budget $

Months

Monthly difficulty growth %

Residual hardware value %

Scenario comparison appears here.

Interpretation: mining revenue at a given XMR price is not a permanent promise. If XMR mining becomes unusually profitable, more hashrate can enter and difficulty can compress returns. Use difficulty scenarios rather than extrapolating static profitability indefinitely.