Kaspa Explained STPMining rewards
Eligible mining work receives newly issued KAS and transaction fees under the consensus rules.
Mining
Many blocks.
Uneven rewards.
The network may find many blocks while your miner finds only a few. Change one miner’s share and sample another minute to see why frequent blocks do not promise steady income.
One minute of network-wide discoveriesSeeded illustration
Other minersYour miner
Expected discoveries6
In this sample2
600 prescribed opportunities at 10 per second. Each is an independent draw using your work share; discovery times, stale work, fees, and pool payouts are not modeled. This does not predict income.
Inspect the calculation
Expected discoveries = 600 × work share. Each sample uses a reproducible pseudorandom seed, beginning at 42. Changing the share keeps the same random draws; “Another sample” changes the seed.
Real block discovery times are random. This display fixes the number of opportunities to isolate differences in mining share.
Where new KAS comes from.
Declining issuance
The monthly subsidy schedule decreases by roughly 5.6% per step and about half across twelve steps. The checked September 6 reward is 2.18267645 KAS per block at 10 BPS.
A bounded supply
The maximum is approximately 28.704 billion KAS. Schedule arithmetic uses whole sompi; issuance is not a smooth continuously calculated exponential.
Mining costs and profitability
Electricity and hardware
Compare power consumption, equipment cost, delivery, cooling, reliability, and usable life. A future exchange value cannot be assumed.
Pools and variance
A pool can smooth payouts in exchange for fees and dependence on its accounting and operation. It does not create additional network rewards.
Future competition
Your share changes as other miners enter, leave, or upgrade. A current revenue estimate is not a payout promise.
Running a node and constructing work
A synced node independently validates the network. A mining bridge can connect compatible hardware to the node’s work. This changes who supplies the network view, not your share of global hashrate.