UNDERSTAND THE WAIT

How Long Does It Take to Mine 1 Bitcoin?

A block reward, not a balance slowly filling up.

There is no fixed time to mine 1 Bitcoin. A solo miner does not gradually fill a balance toward 1 BTC: it finds an accepted Bitcoin block and receives the block reward, or it receives no block reward.

The reward is the block subsidy plus transaction fees. For heights 840,000–1,049,999, the subsidy is 3.125 BTC; it halves every 210,000 blocks. The current subsidy is calculated from the latest available height below. A solo pool may deduct its own fee.

Conventional payout pools can credit smaller amounts over time under their payout rules. That is different from waiting for your own solo block.

How long would your hardware take?

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Example input. Replace it with your hardware’s measured hashrate.

Statistical expected time to find a block—

This is a statistical average, not a countdown. Your next hash could theoretically find a block.

Next 24 hours

—Waiting for network data

Next 1 year

—Waiting for network data

Constant hashrate and difficulty assumed. Past hashes do not improve the probability of the next hash.

COMPARE THE SCALE

Same network. Very different hardware.

Select a hashrate to calculate ↑

Examples for comparison, not a ranking or a buying recommendation. Measured rates depend on hardware, firmware, settings and cooling.

Example hardware classes and solo block estimates at the displayed network difficulty
Hardware class	Expected time to a block	Basis
Browser miner / ordinary PCGeneral-purpose CPU	—	Illustrative input, not a benchmark. Measure yours.
NerdMiner-class deviceESP32 microcontroller	—	Illustrative input; use your device’s measured rate. Project ↗
Bitaxe-class minerGamma example · single ASIC	—	Approximate design rate in the Gamma project ↗.
Modern ASICANTMINER S21 Pro 234T example	—	Nominal model rating. BITMAIN manual ↗

Specifications checked September 29, 2026. These are examples, not claims about the newest or fastest devices. Network-dependent times refresh with the calculator.

“Time to mine 1 Bitcoin” is not a countdown.

Mining is probabilistic. Even after one statistical expected waiting time, the Poisson model gives only about a 63.2% chance of at least one block. A miner can find one sooner, much later, or never during its operating life.

Why the estimate can change

Difficulty, uptime and hashrate affect the calculation. Block subsidies and transaction fees affect the reward, not the chance that a given hash meets the current target. This tool estimates block discovery, not earnings or a date when your balance will reach 1 BTC.

For all five time horizons and the formula, open the Bitcoin Solo Mining Calculator →

Test your computer's real Bitcoin hashrate

Open the miner and choose “Run a local hash test”. No address is needed for the test.

Measure my hashrate