DigiByte solo mining calculator
Your solo odds on DigiByte (SHA-256)
A Bitaxe Gamma (1.2 TH/s) solo mining DigiByte on its SHA-256 algorithm takes about 27 days, on average, to find one block at DigiByte’s recent SHA-256 difficulty of 648.12M.
Figures above are for a Bitaxe Gamma at 1.2 TH/s — enter your own hashrate or pick your gear to replace them.
The same 1.2 TH/s on Bitcoin: about 15,000 years · on Bitcoin Cash: about 49 years.
DigiByte SHA-256 difficulty 648,121,940 at block 24,255,435, the average over recent SHA-256 blocks, read from our own DigiByte node at . DigiByte retargets on every block, so one block’s figure swings widely; the average is the steadier guide.
An average is not a countdown. Every hash is a fresh draw, so a block can land tomorrow or never, and the chance is the same for every block.
Which SHA-256 coin gives this device the best odds?
Of the three chains read just now, DigiByte’s SHA-256 algorithm has the lowest difficulty, so it gives every device the shortest wait: about 660 times shorter than on Bitcoin Cash and about 200,000 times shorter than on Bitcoin. The order is the same for every machine, because the wait depends on difficulty and hashrate alone; the device only sets how long each wait is.
| Device | Bitcoin | Bitcoin Cash | DigiByte (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitaxe Gamma1.2 TH/s | 15,000 years | 49 years | 27 days (the shortest wait) |
| NerdQAxe++4.8 TH/s | 3,800 years | 12 years | 6.7 days (the shortest wait) |
| Avalon Nano 3S6 TH/s | 3,000 years | 9.7 years | 5.4 days (the shortest wait) |
| Avalon Q90 TH/s | 200 years | 7.8 months | 8.6 hours (the shortest wait) |
| Antminer S21200 TH/s | 90 years | 3.5 months | 3.9 hours (the shortest wait) |
Average time to a block, at each chain’s difficulty as our own nodes reported it: Bitcoin 132.76T, read · Bitcoin Cash 429.81G, read · DigiByte 648.12M (recent SHA-256 average), read .
A block pays 3.125 BTC plus fees on Bitcoin, 3.125 BCH plus fees on Bitcoin Cash and about 250.75 DGB on DigiByte — coin amounts, not money. The coins are worth very different amounts, so this table compares odds and nothing else.
How the odds are worked out
Two lines of maths, the same on every SHA-256 chain. Blocks arrive as a Poisson process, so the wait is exponential rather than a countdown.
T = difficulty × 232 ÷ hashrate
P(at least one block in t) = 1 − e−t/T
T is the average number of seconds between your own blocks, because a block needs difficulty × 232 hashes on average; t is however long you mine.
Worked at DigiByte’s SHA-256 difficulty above, for a Bitaxe Gamma at 1.2 TH/s:
T = 648,121,940 × 4,294,967,296 ÷ 1,200,000,000,000 ≈ 2.32 × 106 seconds ≈ 27 days
P(30 days) = 1 − e−2,592,000 / T ≈ 67.2%
- DigiByte runs five mining algorithms at once and aims for one SHA-256 block every 75 seconds. Its SHA-256 difficulty already reflects that one-in-five share, so the formula applies as it stands: do not multiply by five.
- DigiShield retargets on every block, so a single block’s SHA-256 difficulty swings widely. This page uses the average over recent SHA-256 blocks, the same figure the DigiByte pool page shows.
- Every hash is a fresh draw that remembers nothing. Time already spent mining does not bring a block closer, and a long dry spell does not make one more likely: the chance in the next 30 days is the same after a year of mining as after a minute.
- The pool does not change these odds. They depend only on your hashrate and the chain’s difficulty, identically on every pool; a pool changes the fee and who holds the reward, not the chance.
Quick answers
How long does it take to solo mine a DigiByte block with a Bitaxe?
On average T = difficulty x 2^32 / hashrate, in seconds. At DigiByte's SHA-256 difficulty our own node reported at 2026-09-22 10:32 UTC, a 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe Gamma takes about 27 days per block and a 200 TH/s Antminer S21 about 3.9 hours. Every hash is a fresh draw, so a block can come far sooner than the average, or never.
What are my chances of finding a DigiByte block in a day?
P = 1 - e^(-86,400/T), where T is your average time to a block. At DigiByte's SHA-256 difficulty read at 2026-09-22 10:32 UTC, a 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe Gamma has a chance of 3.6% on any one day and 67.2% over 30 days. It is the same every day: a near miss yesterday does not raise today's chance.
Which DigiByte algorithm can a Bitaxe mine?
SHA256d (SHA-256), one of DigiByte's five mining algorithms. It is the same function Bitcoin uses, so Bitcoin hardware mines it unchanged; the other four (Scrypt, Skein, Qubit and Odocrypt) need different machines.
Is DigiByte easier to solo mine than Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin?
Right now DigiByte's SHA-256 difficulty is about 660 times lower than Bitcoin Cash's and about 200,000 times lower than Bitcoin's (all read from our own nodes, the DigiByte figure at 2026-09-22 10:32 UTC), so the same machine waits that much less on average. The prize is far smaller too: about 250.75 DGB a block.
Why does this DigiByte difficulty differ from an explorer's?
DigiByte runs five algorithms and retargets on every block. Many explorers show the difficulty of whichever algorithm mined the latest block; this page uses SHA-256's own difficulty, averaged over recent SHA-256 blocks, because a single block's figure swings widely from one block to the next.
Solo mine DigiByte on SoloLuck
SoloLuck runs a true-solo DigiByte pool on SHA256d, the algorithm your Bitcoin hardware already speaks: 0% fee, finders keepers. A solved block pays its whole reward straight to your own DigiByte address (starting D, S or dgb1), and nobody holds your coins. It changes the fee and the custody, not your odds.
SoloLuck has not found a Bitcoin block. Its DigiByte pool has found six blocks. All six were found by machines the pool operator runs.