1 TH/s of mining earns today
$0.0316
a day, after the pool fee and before electricity.
Scam watch
Spot a mining scambefore it spots you.
Fake cloud-mining sites promise fixed daily returns that real mining can't pay. Check any promise against live Bitcoin data, learn the red flags, and see how the biggest schemes ended up in court.
Live reality check
The one number most scams can't beat.
Mining pays whatever the Bitcoin network pays, and that changes with every block. Here it is right now.1
As a daily return on fairly priced hashrate
0.107%
at $9.41 per TH/s with 24 months of power included. It falls as difficulty rises.
To pay 1.5% a day from mining, Bitcoin would need to trade at
$1.04M
about 14× today's price of $74,318.
Check a promise
% a day
Not possible from mining
That's 14× what Bitcoin mining pays today.
To pay it from mining, Bitcoin would have to trade at about $1.04M. The payouts would have to come from newer customers' deposits: that's a Ponzi scheme.
Check a full offer: price, hashrate and payoutVerdictNot from mining
- ✕Revenue test
Promises $0.0560 per TH/s per day. The whole Bitcoin network pays $0.0317 before electricity, so this is 1.8× more than mining can earn.
- ✕Hardware test
$4.00 per TH/s. New efficient ASICs cost about $18–22 per TH/s, so this is below what the machines cost.
- ✕Return test
511% a year. At today's hashprice, brand-new hardware grosses about 58% a year before paying for any electricity.
Passing the math doesn't prove an offer is real. Failing it proves the payouts can't come from mining. Next, ask for a serial number, a pool observer link and payout transactions.
Red flags
Eight signs it isn't mining.
One of these is a warning. Two or more, and it's time to walk away.
Fixed daily returns
Real mining income moves every day with Bitcoin's price, difficulty and fees. A steady 1–2% a day is paid out of newer deposits, not mining.
More than the network pays
If a plan pays more per TH/s than the whole Bitcoin network pays per TH/s, the money isn't coming from mining.
A balance you withdraw from
Ponzi dashboards show a balance growing inside their site. Real pool payouts go straight to your own wallet, so there's nothing to withdraw.
Fees to get your money out
"Unlock", "tax" or "verification" fees before a withdrawal are the classic last step. Pay one and another appears.
Paid to recruit
Referral levels, team bonuses and "binary" commissions mean the business runs on new money coming in.
No machines you can check
No serial numbers, no read-only pool observer link, no facility they'll name. There's no way to confirm any mining happens.
Licences you can't verify
Certificates, company numbers and "regulated by" badges mean nothing until you find them on the regulator's own website.
Pressure and bonuses
Countdown timers, "today only" bonus rates and deposit matches are there to make you pay before you check.
Case files
How the big ones ended.
Four schemes that sold mining profits and ended in U.S. federal court, summarised from the Department of Justice.2
HashFlare
- What it sold
- Contracts for a share of the bitcoin its mining operation would produce.
- What prosecutors found
- It didn't have the computing power behind most of the mining it sold.
- How it ended
- Its two founders pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in 2025 and agreed to forfeit assets worth more than $400 million for victims. They were sentenced to time served; prosecutors appealed.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
BitClub Network
- What it sold
- Shares in bitcoin mining pools, plus commissions for recruiting new investors.
- What prosecutors found
- Investors were shown "mining earnings" that prosecutors describe as false and misleading figures.
- How it ended
- Several promoters, and a programmer who helped build it, pleaded guilty to federal charges between 2020 and 2022.
AirBit Club
- What it promised
- Passive, guaranteed daily returns from crypto mining and trading.
- What prosecutors found
- No mining or trading was taking place. It was a pyramid scheme.
- How it ended
- In 2023 a co-founder was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and other leaders and promoters were sentenced too.
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
IcomTech
- What it promised
- Profits from cryptocurrency mining and trading investment products.
- What prosecutors found
- A multi-level-marketing Ponzi scheme. People who tried to withdraw ran into delays and hidden fees.
- How it ended
- Its founder was sentenced in 2024 to 121 months in prison, and its purported CEO and several promoters were also sentenced.
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
We only list a scheme here when a court record or a regulator's public warning backs it, and we always link the source. To suggest one, email support@tallyhashs.com with the link.
Before you pay
Check the site. Report the scam.
Look it up
Search the company and the website on regulators' own lists before you send anything.
Report it
Lost money, or saw an offer like this? Report it, even if it feels small. Reports help investigators find and stop these sites.
Already paid? Stop sending money, don't pay any "unlock" or "tax" fee to withdraw, keep every record, and ignore "recovery" services that want a fee first: they're often scams too.
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Don't trust us either. Verify us.
Every estimate on this site is live from the Bitcoin network, the pool pays your own wallet directly, and you get machine serial numbers and a read-only pool observer link. If we ever promise you a fixed daily return, treat us as a scam too.