TideHash opens a BLAKE2b hashrate market: rent XBT mining power from $2.56 per TH a day
TideHash is a new marketplace for renting BLAKE2b hashrate by the TH. You bid a price per TH per day, point it at your own DATUM gateway or an XBT pool, and pay per order in BTC, XBT or other coins. No account needed. On Sunday it listed about 2,171 TH/s available, roughly 4.8% of the network.
The market on Oct 25
| At 12:09 | |
|---|---|
| Minimum bid (base price) | $2.56 per TH per day |
| Top bid | $2.78 |
| Rented now | 225 TH/s, 100% of its own fleet |
| Available | 2,171 TH/s, mostly partner capacity from $2.59 |
| Connected miners | 42 |
| Orders completed | 19, about 25,000 TH-hours delivered |
| Network hashrate | 45.1 PH/s |
The site says about 300 TH/s more capacity is coming in early November.
How it works
- Bid, don't buy a contract. Higher bids get capacity first. If you're outbid, your order keeps everything you paid for and runs longer at lower speed.
- Metered by accepted shares, so you pay for hashrate your pool actually counted.
- Orders run 1 to 720 hours, from 1 TH/s, with a $10 minimum.
- Fees: none with BTC or XBT, 0.8% with stablecoins or Binance Pay, 4.5% by card.
- Destination: TideHash recommends your own DATUM gateway, so you build your own block templates. A public pool port also works if the pool supports it.
Does the math work?
At 45.1 PH/s and the 3.125 XBT block reward, 1 TH/s earns about 0.010 XBT a day on average, roughly $3.60 at $362, before pool fees and luck. The $2.59 bid level is about 72% of that. On paper, renting beats buying at the current price. Three things cut into it:
- Coinbase locks. Rewards mined before block 979,919 are held by Knots relay policy for 6,480 blocks each. If #468 ships, rewards from 979,919 on wait about 180 days. Rented coins aren't spendable soon either way.
- Liquidity. The XBT order book is thin. Mining coins cheaply doesn't mean you can sell them at the quoted price.
- Variance and difficulty. Short rentals ride pool luck, and a difficulty adjustment is due around the end of October.
For the network
Rentable hashrate cuts both ways. It lets small holders mine their own coins and their own templates, which is good for decentralization. It also means about 5% of the network can be pointed anywhere for a few dollars per TH. That's small today. It's worth watching as listed capacity grows.
xbt.live hasn't used TideHash and has no relationship with it. Check terms and test with a small order first.
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Source: tidehash.com market page, Oct 25, 2026 at 12:09. Revenue estimate uses 144 blocks a day and the network hashrate shown there. Not financial advice.
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