Frequently Asked Questions

Be honest with yourself: probably not enough to call it income. Home CPU/GPU mining usually lands somewhere between "covers its own electricity" and "small monthly accumulation of MLRT." The real value is participating in the network, learning, and slowly building a position. If a site promises guaranteed profit from home mining, it is selling you something.

For most home miners, profitable is the wrong word. A realistic outcome is somewhere between covering your own electricity and a small monthly accumulation of MLRT. Profitability depends on four things you can measure: your hashrate, your power draw, your local electricity rate, and the current network conditions. Run the numbers yourself rather than trusting a calculator that hides its assumptions. If a site quotes you a fixed daily return without asking what hardware you own, treat the number as marketing rather than math. Mining as participation is honest; mining as a stable income stream from a single home PC is not.

Your share of the rewards goes down. The Malairte protocol adjusts difficulty so that blocks come out at roughly the same rate regardless of how much total hashrate is mining. When new miners arrive, the network gets harder and the same hardware earns a smaller slice of each block reward. This is by design and it is why honest profitability math has to account for difficulty going up over time, not just price. A coin getting more popular among miners is a headwind for any individual miner, even if it sounds like good news.

A fair launch means a cryptocurrency starts without a pre-mine, without insider allocations, and without venture-capital tranches taking a large share of the supply before the public can participate. Anyone who wants coins has to mine them or buy them from someone who did. Malairte is positioned as a CPU and GPU mineable, fair-launch coin: the supply is built by miners over time, not handed to founders. Fair launch matters because it changes who benefits from the network growing. In a pre-mined coin, early insiders benefit most; in a fair-launch coin, the people doing the work do.

When you mine a block on Malairte, you receive two things: a block reward in newly issued MLRT, and the sum of the transaction fees in that block. Today the block reward is by far the larger piece. Over the long run, emission schedules typically slow down so block rewards shrink and transaction fees become a bigger share of miner income. For honest planning, look at both numbers on the current network status page rather than assuming the present-day mix will hold forever. As a home miner contributing to a pool, you receive a proportional slice of both components based on the shares you submitted.

The risk most home miners underestimate is not price; it is concentration on one variable. They lock in expectations based on today's MLRT price, today's difficulty, and today's electricity rate, then act surprised when any of those move. A realistic plan treats all four mining variables as moving targets and stays solvent if any one of them turns against you. Hardware wear, summer cooling costs, and the time you spend tinkering are real expenses too. The goal is to be able to walk away from mining at any point without feeling like you have to recover sunk costs. If you cannot, you have over-committed.

Maximum supply is the ceiling on how many coins can ever exist under the current protocol rules. It tells you the upper bound of emission, nothing more. A capped supply means new coins stop being created once the ceiling is reached, after which miners are paid only from transaction fees. What max supply does not tell you is value, demand, or how the coins are distributed today. A coin can have a low max supply and still be widely available, or a high one and be concentrated in few hands. Treat max supply as a fact about the protocol, not a signal about price. Always confirm the figure against the chain rather than a marketing page.

Volatility means the MLRT price can move sharply in short periods, in either direction. For a miner it matters because your break-even calculation uses today's price, and a swing can flip you from net-positive to net-negative on electricity overnight without you changing anything. It is a risk to understand, not a feature to chase. The practical response is to plan around what you can measure, your power cost and your output in MLRT, and to treat the price as a variable you do not control. If your mining only makes sense when the price is high, you are exposed to volatility rather than insulated from it. Aiming to cover power keeps volatility from dictating your decisions.

The coinbase reward, sometimes called the block subsidy, is the newly created MLRT paid to whoever mines a block. It is brand-new coins entering circulation, defined by the emission schedule. Transaction fees are different: they are existing MLRT that senders attach to their transactions to have them included, and they go to the miner on top of the coinbase reward. Today the coinbase reward is the larger part of miner income; over time, as emission slows through halvings, fees grow as a share. Together they make up your total block revenue. The word coinbase here refers to the special first transaction in a block, not any exchange or company of the same name.

No. The price of one unit tells you almost nothing on its own, because coins differ wildly in total supply. A coin priced at a fraction of a cent can have a far larger total supply than one priced higher, so per-unit price is not comparable across coins. The figure that puts price in context is market capitalisation: price multiplied by circulating supply. Even then, market cap describes current valuation, not whether something is a good purchase. This site does not give buying advice. The point is purely educational: judging value by per-unit price alone is a common error, and understanding supply is what lets you read the number correctly.

Estimate the cost side before you commit, because it is the part you can actually predict. Take the hardware's realistic wall power draw, not its spec-sheet TDP, and multiply by the hours you plan to run it to get daily kilowatt-hours. Multiply that by the rate on your real electricity bill, including taxes and delivery charges. Add seasonal cooling if you run in a warm space, plus a small allowance for hardware wear. That gives you a defensible monthly running cost in your own currency. You can do this entirely before spending a cent on mining, which is exactly why it belongs at the start of any honest evaluation rather than after you have already bought in.