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SHA-256 · air-cooled
MicroBT Whatsminer M60S
A mid-tier air-cooled machine at 18.5 W/TH. Competent rather than leading: it needs meaningfully cheaper power than an S21 Pro to return the same margin. Its 180-day warranty is half what Bitmain offers on comparable models.
At your electricity rate
$/kWh
Operating profit
$2.22
per day · 0.00009083 BTC
Break-even electricity
$0.0869
per kWh · $0.0269 above your rate
Payback period
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Revenue / day$7.18
Electricity / day$4.96
Energy / day82.6 kWh
Revenue assumes a 1% pool fee at the current BTC price and network difficulty, with the machine running continuously. Payback needs a hardware cost, which we do not publish because we have no verified retailer feed — add your own purchase price in the calculator. Your rate is saved in this browser and applies across the site.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | MicroBT |
|---|---|
| Model | Whatsminer M60S |
| Algorithm | SHA-256 |
| Coins | Bitcoin |
| Hashrate | 186 TH/s |
| Power | 3,441 W |
| Efficiency | 18.5 W/TH |
| Cooling | Air |
| Type | ASIC |
| Released | 2024 |
| Home suitable | No — noise and power draw |
| Noise | 75 dB |
| Dimensions | 430 × 155 × 226 mm |
| Weight | 13.5 kg |
| Operating temperature | -5 to 35 °C |
| Warranty | 180 days |
Data provenance
Manufacturer datasheet as published by retailers; power draw corroborated across three independent sources. Last verified 2026-08-03.
Note: We previously published 3,348 W for this model, which was wrong — the datasheet figure is 3,441 W (18.5 W/TH). MicroBT's own product pages were unreachable, so this was settled against three independent sources that agree. The correction lowers its break-even electricity price slightly.
Any field not listed above is one we could not verify for this machine. We would rather leave a row out than publish a figure you cannot check. Where published sources disagree, we say so instead of picking one. How we verify specifications.
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