Flexible or Fixed Term: Choosing a Hashrate Contract

Two contract styles cover almost every need. Flexible and fixed term. They are not better or worse than each other. They simply suit different temperaments and different plans.

Flexible: pay the live rate

A flexible contract uses the live rate shown before you submit. If the market gets cheaper, you benefit. If it gets richer, you pay a little more. You keep your freedom and you stay close to the real cost of power at all times. This suits buyers who like to stay nimble and who watch the market anyway.

Fixed term: lock the number

A fixed term contract locks the quoted rate at confirmation and holds it for the full window. The headline rate carries a small premium, because we are absorbing the risk of difficulty and market swings for you. In return you get certainty. You know your cost for the whole period, which makes planning easy and budgets clean.

• Flexible tracks the live market and stays light on its feet
• Fixed term locks a rate and trades a small premium for certainty
• Both settle in Bitcoin and mine to the pool you choose

A quick way to decide

Ask yourself one question. Do you want freedom or do you want a number you can defend to a finance team. If you value freedom and you enjoy watching the market, flexible fits. If you need a clean line on a budget for a month, fixed term earns its small premium.

Many buyers run both. They hold a flexible base and add a fixed block when they want certainty over a stretch. You can model either one on the calculator before you decide, and you can change your mix as your plans change.