5. Break-even Period

1. Calculation Results (Non-whitelisted users with only one product from EC-CUBE)

  • The graph on the left shows the payback period for a $299 Ec³ cube.

  • The calculation is based on an electricity cost of $0.16 per kWh, with each ECT valued at $0.05, $0.075 and $0.1

  • According to the calculations, if 20Kwh of electricity is used during peak hours every day, it will take a maximum of 140 days to break even.

2. Calculation Results (Whitelisted users with two products from EC-CUBE)

  • The graph on the left shows the payback period for a $299 Ec³ cube.

  • The calculation is based on an electricity cost of $0.16 per kWh, with each ECT valued at $0.05, $0.075 and $0.1

  • According to the calculations, if 20Kwh of electricity is used during peak hours every day, it will take a maximum of 50 days to break even.

3. Calculation Process

Income and Expenditure Items

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Reference

Cost per kWh of electricity usage

0.16

ECTs earned per green score

4.8

Green Score = Amount of kWh consumed * the electricity consumption coefficient for the corresponding time period

Earning ECT = (Total ECT reward per mining round ÷ Sum of all users' green scores) × 90%

The daily mining quantity is halved every two years, with 200,000 ECTs per day from 2024 to 2025.

Assuming 4,000 non-whitelisted users, with each user consuming 5 kWh during peak hours and 5 kWh during off-peak hours, the total green score for users is 37,000.

At this time, ECTs earned per green score = (200,000 / 37,000) × 90% ≈ 4.8

ECT Value

0.05

Total supply of 1 billion, market capitalization around 50 million.

Ec³ Cube Cost

299

  • Electricity Cost: The cost per kWh of electricity is referenced from the electricity cost published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

  • ECT Quantity Acquired: section Mining Reward in Tokenomic.

  • Electricity Consumption Coefficient: Referenced from the Economic Model Overview | VI. Items to be Modified.

  • Additional Note from Jianlin: 1/10 of the ECTs earned by users from mining will be used as compensation for gas fees.

  • X-axis: Represents the amount of kWh electricity used by users during peak hours each day.

    Reference for the daily electricity usage range on the X-axis: The average daily electricity usage for a U.S. household (3 people) is 37.1 kWh.

  • Electricity Monthly Update - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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