Costs, Fees and Profitability
DraftStatus: Draft Version: 0.1.0 Last Updated: 2026-05-17 Owner: Axodus Mining
Purpose
Mining profitability is an estimate, not a guarantee. It can become negative when costs exceed rewards.
Cost Categories
Costs may include hardware purchase, lease or depreciation, energy, cooling, hosting, maintenance, pool fees, network fees, validator costs, operations, monitoring, support, and treasury allocation if governance approves it.
Estimate Fields
Profitability estimates should include estimate ID, period, network, asset, hashrate or validator capacity, difficulty or reward context, asset price assumption, gross reward estimate, energy cost, pool or validator fees, hardware depreciation, hosting, maintenance, other costs, net estimate, sensitivity notes, data sources, limitations, and creation date.
Rules
Estimates must be labeled as estimates. Historical results do not guarantee future results. Gross rewards must not be presented as profit. Costs must be included or explicitly excluded. Asset price assumptions and network difficulty changes must be stated. Fixed ROI language is prohibited.
Sensitivity Factors
Sensitivity factors include asset price, network difficulty, block rewards, fee markets, energy cost, uptime, hardware efficiency, pool fee, pool luck, payout thresholds, maintenance cost, regulation, tax, and liquidity.
Prohibited Claims
Do not claim guaranteed ROI, guaranteed daily profit, fixed income, risk-free mining, passive income without risk, guaranteed payback period, certain profit, or impossible losses.
Cost And Result Model
A defensible result separates equipment, energy, hosting, pool, network, maintenance, downtime, financing, custody, conversion, and tax assumptions from realized rewards. Forecasts identify period, unit, source, volatility, and scenario. No estimate is a guaranteed profit, yield, payback period, revenue, or Treasury inflow, and no current economics are asserted without evidence.