Refinery

sn125Training & Fine-tuningClean25Strong entry79

Optimizing the algorithms behind a pretraining run, starting with the optimizer

Barbariandev/refinery· pushed 7d ago reg. open

Emission

0.8

TAO / day · live

Alpha

0.0131

τ · mcap 33.1K

Top-slot payout

0.020

τ per winning epoch · live

Worth mining Refinery?

model the marginal economics before you burn the registration fee — live chain numbers, your assumptions

Your rig

drag to model your setup

Hardware cost$2,400

Electricity$3.0/day

Skill multiplier1.20× avg miner

Registration burn 0.001 τ

Active miners (live) 12

Pool depth 24,565 τ

Share model: 1/active × skill — an approximation; real share follows the subnet's own scoring.

Verdict

expected marginal economics for one more miner

Worth mining

Est. share

10.0

% of epoch emission

Net / day

$15.35

after slippage + power

Monthly

$460.49

19.2% ROI / mo

Break-even

5.2mo

0% sell slippage

Hardware, power and skill are your assumptions — everything else (emission, alpha price, pool depth, registration burn, active-miner competition) is read live from subtensor. Paused or zero-emission subnets will always model to “not worth it” because there is genuinely nothing to mine.