Cloud mining without your own hardware: $35.60 per petahash a day before fees

The record shows this: Binance is discontinuing Binance Pool together with Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and the Transaction Accelerator on November 10, 2026 at 07:00 UTC; hash rate and shares submitted after that point will no longer be accepted, processed or credited, according to the announcement of October 13, 2026. One of the large routes into mining without your own hardware thus disappears. Our assessment follows further down: a cloud mining contract is a bet on two variables the buyer does not influence, and its return can be calculated before the purchase.