GoMining with bitcoin above $80,000: what 1 TH earns today

The question everyone is asking this month is the obvious one: is GoMining profitable now that bitcoin has gone up? It has a short answer and a longer one. The short one is a number, so it goes first.

The answer, today

On 8 October 2026, with bitcoin at $82,638 and the network at 991.67 EH/s, a new 12 W/TH miner nets about $0.0126 per TH per day after maintenance, with no discounts. For 100 TH that is about $38.36 a month. The table below recalculates with live network data every time you open the page:

A new 12 W/TH miner, which is the only tier GoMining sells new since June 2026. Electricity at $0.05/kWh, service fee $0.0089 per TH per day, and this site's measured pool factor of 0.952. "Max discounts" is the 29% ceiling (20% token + 6% VIP + 3% service button), which nobody has on day one. Net scales linearly: 1,000 TH is ten times the 100 TH column.

So yes: at today's price a new miner earns more than it costs to run. For this setup the bitcoin price where the net hits zero is around $53,630. Below it, maintenance eats the whole reward.

What changed since August

Two months ago, with bitcoin around $63,500 and network difficulty at 127.5 T, the same 100 TH were netting about $0.67 a day. Measured the same way today, it is about $1.40. Bitcoin rose about 30%. The net roughly doubled.

Both figures use the hashrate implied by each date's difficulty, so they are comparable. The live table uses mempool.space's three-day hashrate estimate, which reads a little higher right now and gives a slightly lower net.

That is operating leverage. Maintenance is billed in dollars and doesn't move with the price, so every extra dollar of revenue goes straight to the net. The maintenance fee article breaks that bill down line by line: for 100 TH at 12 W/TH it is $2.33 a day, at $82,000 bitcoin or at $40,000. A 30% rise doubled the margin. The same leverage works in reverse, and the rest of this article is about that.

If bitcoin moves from here

Nobody knows where bitcoin goes next, so here is the same 100 TH miner at five prices, from roughly where it was in August to well above today. Payback is the miner's price divided by the daily net, at the two ends of GoMining's official price range: $21.99 per TH for a 1 TH miner, down to $17.60 per TH at 5,000 TH (GoMining, June 2026). A 100 TH miner lands somewhere in between.

100 TH, 12 W/TH, $0.05/kWh, no discounts, today's network difficulty held constant. Simple payback is purchase price ÷ today's net per day, in months, and it ignores both difficulty growth and the halving. The last column applies the 2028 subsidy cut at the same price and difficulty. It isolates an effect; it is not a forecast.

Read the payback columns with the halving next to them. The next one is about 18 months away, at block 1,050,000, around April 2028. At today's price simple payback is close to five years at the 1 TH price and nearly four at the 5,000 TH price. Not one row pays back before the halving, and after it the reward per TH roughly halves while the maintenance bill stays exactly where it was.

At today's price, the last column is negative: with no discounts, a 12 W/TH miner would run at a loss after the halving unless bitcoin rises or difficulty falls. On today's difficulty it needs around $106,655 to stay above zero. How that plays out, and why difficulty usually softens it, is in GoMining and the 2028 halving.

Why the rally helps less than it looks

What a TH earns in dollars, what the industry calls hashprice, is the bitcoin price multiplied by the sats each TH mines. The price half moved fast. The sats half moves slower, but it moves against you.

Difficulty catches up. When mining gets more profitable, more machines get switched on, and every two weeks the network raises difficulty so blocks keep coming every ten minutes. Since early August difficulty has gone from 127.5 T to 132.7 T, about +4%, and the three-day hashrate estimate reads 992 EH/s today against 867 EH/s in late July. New hardware is ordered when prices rise and gets plugged in months later, so the catch-up tends to lag the rally rather than skip it. At today's price, a 20% rise in network hashrate would take this miner's net back to about $0.66 a day, which is August's level, with bitcoin still above $80,000.

The halving doesn't care about the price. The subsidy drops from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC on a fixed block height. A rally before it doesn't change the date or the size of the cut.

Costs don't follow the price down. At $82,638 the table shows about $1.26 a day. At $60,000 it shows $0.28. A 27% drop in the price, a 78% drop in the net. Leverage is symmetric, and the miner you buy today lives through whatever bitcoin does next.

Buying after a pump is a timing bet

A miner is a bet that the bitcoin it mines over the next few years will be worth more than what you pay for it today. Buying right after a 30% rally means buying when the margin looks best, which is also when it is most exposed. The payback table assumes today's price holds for years, difficulty never rises and the halving never comes. None of those three is likely.

If bitcoin drifts back to where it was in August, simple payback stretches past 17 years even at the 5,000 TH price. That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy. It means the useful question isn't "is it profitable now that bitcoin went up?". On these assumptions, today, it is. The useful question is "am I fine with this if bitcoin goes back down?". If the answer only works above $80,000, you are making a bet on the price with extra steps, and holding bitcoin directly is the simpler version of that bet. Is GoMining worth it in 2026? sets the two side by side.

What you actually control

• Efficiency. Revenue per TH is the same for everyone; the power bill is not. A 15 W/TH miner nets about $0.90 a day per 100 TH at today's price, against $1.26 at 12 W/TH. Why W/TH decides the price at which you stop earning.
• Discounts. Up to 29% off maintenance, which is exactly the part a falling price doesn't touch. With all of them on, the same 100 TH nets about $58.93 a month instead of $38.36.
• The price per TH. Larger miners cost less per TH, which shortens payback without changing anything else. The exact figure for your size is shown at checkout.
• Your horizon. If your payback runs past April 2028, the halving is already inside your numbers. The calculator's 24-month projection applies it, together with a monthly difficulty growth you can set yourself.

If you do go in, how to start with GoMining walks the steps in order, and the referral code page explains the bonus and where the code goes before the first purchase.

In short

• At $82,638 bitcoin (8 October 2026), a new 12 W/TH miner nets about $0.0126 per TH per day after maintenance, or about $38 a month per 100 TH, with no discounts.
• The rally roughly doubled the net since early August, because maintenance is billed in dollars and stayed put.
• The same leverage cuts the other way: back at $60,000, the net falls by close to 80%.
• Difficulty is catching up, slowly, and the halving arrives on schedule whatever the price does.
• No price in the table pays back before the halving on simple payback. Buying now is fine if it still makes sense to you at a lower price; if it only works above $80,000, it's a price bet.