ViaBTC mining statistics are useful because they connect a miner’s hashrate with network difficulty, pool performance, block production, luck, orphan rate, and expected daily income. As of September 11, 2026, ViaBTC reported about 98.79 EH/s of pool hashrate versus 938.03 EH/s for the Bitcoin network, with current difficulty at 125.81 T and estimated daily earnings around $0.039 per TH/s. Its page also showed 3-day luck of 98.44%, 7-day luck of 91.05%, 30-day luck of 92.02%, and an orphan rate of 0.03%. These figures help miners separate changes caused by their own equipment from changes affecting the wider network.
A miner producing 100 TH/s does not operate in a fixed environment. If network hashrate rises from 800 EH/s to 900 EH/s, that miner’s share falls from 0.0000125% to about 0.0000111%, even though the machine still produces 100 TH/s. This is why pool and network statistics need to be read together. ViaBTC currently reports 98.79 EH/s of pool hashrate against 938.03 EH/s of network hashrate, giving the pool roughly 10.5% of the network’s reported computing power.
That percentage is useful when reading block frequency. A pool with around 10% of network hashrate should, over a sufficiently large sample, find about 10% of Bitcoin blocks, although short periods can differ sharply because block discovery is probabilistic. ViaBTC’s current statistics list 52,780 total pool blocks and 19 orphan blocks, producing a reported orphan rate of 0.03%. A sample that large is much more useful for judging long-run pool behavior than a single day with unusually fast or slow blocks.
“A 24-hour result should be treated differently from a 30-day result.”
The same point appears in ViaBTC’s luck figures. The current page shows 98.44% luck over 3 days, 91.05% over 7 days, 92.02% over 30 days, and 99.73% over the full recorded period. The gap between 91.05% and 99.73% shows why a miner should not treat one short period as a stable measure of pool performance.
Block runtime provides another useful reference. ViaBTC’s recent Bitcoin records include examples ranging from 5 seconds to 8 hours 47 minutes, with many blocks falling between roughly 40 minutes and 5 hours. One recorded block at height 965274 had a runtime of only 4 minutes 45 seconds, while another at height 965132 took 8 hours 47 minutes. A 110× difference between those two runtimes can occur without any hardware failure.
Difficulty adds a second layer. Bitcoin adjusts difficulty every 2,016 blocks, so an individual ASIC can keep producing the same 200 TH/s while its expected BTC output changes. ViaBTC’s September 2026 statistics showed current difficulty at 125.81 T and an estimated next difficulty of 125.01 T, a projected change of -0.63%. For a miner building a monthly estimate, a 0.63% adjustment is small; repeated adjustments of 5% or 10% across several periods would produce a much larger change in projected output.
The easiest way to connect these figures with a specific ASIC is to use the ViaBTC Mining Calculator. The calculator accepts coin price, difficulty, PPS fee rate, and valid hashrate, then produces an estimated daily amount. A miner can test the same 200 TH/s machine under several difficulty assumptions rather than relying on one current estimate.
| Metric | Current ViaBTC figure | What a miner can compare |
|---|---|---|
| Pool hashrate | 98.79 EH/s | Own hashrate share |
| Network hashrate | 938.03 EH/s | Competitive share |
| BTC difficulty | 125.81 T | Future output estimates |
| Daily earnings | $0.039/TH/s | Machine-level revenue |
| 3-day luck | 98.44% | Short sample |
| 30-day luck | 92.02% | Longer sample |
| Orphan rate | 0.03% | Block acceptance history |
Payout method changes how these statistics should be read. ViaBTC states that PPS+ is the default method, while PPLNS is also available. For PPS+ block rewards, the published fee rate is 4%, and the payout is calculated hourly using the current difficulty; transaction-fee income uses a 2% PPLNS-based allocation. Under PPLNS, the published fee rate is 2%, with rewards calculated from the user’s share of pool hashrate over the previous 5 difficulty rounds after a block receives 6 confirmations.
That five-round period matters when comparing daily income. A miner switching from PPS+ to PPLNS should not expect the same one-day pattern, because the accounting window and exposure to actual pool block production are different. A machine producing 150 TH/s can therefore show different payout timing under the two methods even when network difficulty and BTC price remain unchanged.
Pool statistics also help with hardware checks. ViaBTC recommends allowing a newly connected miner to stabilize for about 10–15 minutes before checking operation status and earnings, and its BTC mining guide recommends multiple connection ports so a failed port can switch to another. If a worker continues producing invalid shares, ViaBTC advises checking the mining configuration and dashboard status.
A simple comparison can narrow the source of a revenue change:
Own hashrate falls 8% → inspect hardware, cooling, power, or connectivity.
Own hashrate stays flat while network hashrate rises 8% → compare expected output again.
Pool hashrate stays stable while 3-day luck falls to 80% → review a longer luck period before changing pools.
Orphan rate moves from 0.03% to 0.20% → examine whether the increase is temporary or persistent.
These percentages should not be read in isolation. An 8% change over 30 minutes is very different from an 8% change sustained for 30 days. Using several time windows helps separate routine variance from a persistent shift.
The same approach applies to hardware purchases. Suppose an ASIC produces 200 TH/s and consumes 3,500 W. At constant output, that is 17.5 J/TH. If another unit produces 250 TH/s at 3,500 W, its efficiency is 14 J/TH, about 20% lower energy use per unit of hashrate. That 20% difference becomes more important as daily revenue falls because electricity occupies a larger share of gross mining income.
Electricity cost can then be paired with ViaBTC’s reported earnings per TH/s. At $0.039 per TH/s per day, a 200 TH/s machine would imply about $7.80 in daily gross revenue before electricity and other costs, using that snapshot. A 3.5 kW machine would consume 84 kWh per day; at $0.06/kWh, electricity would cost $5.04, leaving about $2.76 before other expenses. The same machine at $0.10/kWh would cost $8.40 per day in electricity, exceeding that gross-revenue estimate. The figures change with BTC price and network conditions, so the calculation needs to be refreshed rather than reused unchanged.
Transaction fees also affect mining income. ViaBTC’s current PPS+ documentation separates block-reward income from transaction-fee income and applies a 4% fee to the PPS block-reward portion, with transaction fees distributed through a 2% PPLNS calculation. A miner comparing two payout periods should therefore avoid judging performance only by the BTC block subsidy component.
For longer-term comparisons, yearly changes provide another useful reference. Bitcoin mining hardware has moved from CPU and GPU systems toward specialized ASIC machines, while network hashrate has grown by orders of magnitude since the early years after Bitcoin’s 2009 launch. The result is that modern profitability depends heavily on machine efficiency, electricity price, and the network’s current computational scale rather than on raw hashrate alone.
A practical review can therefore use a small set of repeated measurements: hashrate, difficulty, daily earnings per TH/s, pool luck at 3-, 7-, and 30-day intervals, orphan rate, payout method, electricity consumption, and BTC price. Recording those numbers once per day for 30 days creates a 30-sample operating history that is far more useful than checking a single payout figure at the end of the month.
ViaBTC’s current statistics page already combines most of these fields in one view, including pool hashrate, network hashrate, difficulty, expected next difficulty, daily earnings, multiple luck periods, block history, total blocks, and orphan rate. That makes the page suitable for regular comparisons between a miner’s own operating records and broader pool conditions.