Sell or keep calculator
Sell bitcoin to pay the power bill, or pay in cash and keep it?
An Antminer S19 mining since Jan. 2022: keeping the coins is
+6.530 $
ahead of selling them for power, valued at today's price of 76.799 $.
- Selling wins only below
- 41.538 $
- Months keeping was behind
- 12 / 58
Okt. 2026 · +6.675 $
Sells to pay power
Coins left
0.1114 BTC
Sold for power: 0.1852 BTC
Sold 0.1852 BTC for 7.693 $ to pay the power, and added 568 $ in cash in months when the coins did not cover it.
Pays in cash, keeps the coins
Coins kept
0.2966 BTC
Every coin kept
Paid 8.260 $ for power in cash.
What keeping is worth at real prices
Close of Okt. 2026
77.582 $
+6.675 $
keeping ahead
Today
76.799 $
+6.530 $
keeping ahead
12-month high
110.590 $
+12.788 $
keeping ahead
All-time high
126.173 $
+15.674 $
keeping ahead
Keeping was behind at the close of 12 of 58 months, for example Jan. 2022, Apr. 2022, Mai 2022. It pays only if you can wait for a better price.
Ask about paying power in cashMethod and sources
Prices: Binance daily closes, averaged per month. Output: daily network difficulty (mempool.space) and the block reward of each day, fees left out. One machine at its rated speed, every hour of every month.
Sources: Binance · mempool.space · data to Okt. 2026
Virtual assets may lose their value in full or in part and are subject to extreme volatility. Past prices do not tell you future prices. This calculator is for education and is not investment advice. Segments sells bitcoin mining hosting.
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12 Monate im Voraus
5%
Rabatt auf das Hosting für die Laufzeit
24 Monate im Voraus
8%
Rabatt auf das Hosting für die Laufzeit
- Ihr Tarif bleibt für die gesamte Laufzeit fest.
- Jeder Monat wird weiterhin nach den kWh abgerechnet, die Ihre Maschinen tatsächlich verbrauchen, und aus dem Guthaben bezahlt. Eine Maschine, die aus ist oder repariert wird, verbraucht nichts.
- Nicht verbrauchtes Guthaben wird beim Austritt erstattet.
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Virtuelle Vermögenswerte können ihren Wert ganz oder teilweise verlieren und unterliegen extremen Schwankungen. Dies ist keine Anlageberatung.
Questions
- Is keeping the coins different from buying bitcoin?
- No. The owner who keeps pays the same power bill in cash and holds the coins the other owner sold. That is the same as selling them and buying them back each month with the power money. It comes out ahead when bitcoin is above the average price those coins were sold at.
- When does keeping come out behind?
- When bitcoin is below that average price. In a falling market the owner who keeps has paid cash for power and holds coins worth less than the cash. The chart shows each month when that was the case. There is no date by which a lower price must recover.
- Why one machine from the first month?
- It keeps the comparison simple: the same speed and power every month. A real fleet is upgraded over time, and a machine mines a little less bitcoin every month as difficulty rises, which the replay includes.
- What is left out?
- Transaction fees, pool fees, downtime and repairs. Fees added a few percent to miners' income in 2021 and 2024 and under one percent since mid-2025, so output reads slightly low. Both owners are affected the same way.
Read what the 2028 halving means for a miner, or see hosting with Segments.