# Taostats for miners If you are thinking about mining on Bittensor - or you want to improve your mining nodes, Taostats has a wealth of information to help you get started. _Source: https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/miners/taostats-for-miners_ _Last reviewed: 2026-09-15_ If you are thinking about mining on Bittensor - or you want to improve your mining nodes, Taostats has a wealth of information to help you get started. ## Getting started: the data When looking at your miner's activity in taostats - there are probably a few different ways you want to interact: 1. [The metagraph](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/miners/taostats-for-miners#the-metagraph-for-miners) to see how your miner(s) are doing in relation to the other neurons. 2. [Coldkey view](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/miners/coldkey-view): A view of all your miners in one place. 3. [Hotkey view](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/miners/hotkey-page): A detailed view of a specific miner. ## The metagraph: for miners Each subnet publishes a Metagraph - a giant table of data about each node. See [Subnet Metagraph table](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/subnets/metagraph#miner-view) for details on how to best sort the metagraph, and how to read the data. The columns most relevant to miners are *trust*, *incentive* and *emission*. * Trust: Scored by validators on how "trustworthy" your results are. What this means varies from Subnet to Subnet. * Incentive: The percentage of miner emission that will be awarded to each miner. The sum of this column is 1. * Emission: This is the tao awarded each epoch. This is calculated from the incentive and the miner's share of emissions. Note that Emission is shown *per epoch*, or 360 blocks. * Daily tao: Emission \*20 (\~ 20 epochs per day). Note: This is an instantaneous calculation - not a predictor. * Daily$: is daily tao \* current price of tao. Note: This is an instantaneous calculation - not a predictor. ![Taostats subnet metagraph table with POS, UID, stake, trust, consensus, incentive, dividends, emission, axon, hotkey, coldkey, and daily reward columns](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-miners-metagraph-table.png) ## ColdKey View The [Coldkey view](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/miners/coldkey-view) in taostats will show details about a specific coldkey wallet, including details about any active hotkeys. `https://taostats.io/coldkey/<your coldkey>` to see your miner's data. ![Taostats coldkey view page with summary cards for neurons, hotkeys, rewards, and stake above a subnet-grouped metagraph table](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-miners-coldkey-view-page.png) ## Registering a node To mine, you need to know how competitive a subnet is, how much it costs to register a node on the subnet, and how the subnet distributes emissions to miners. Register a node using the [Command Line Tool](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/concepts/command-line-tool)" ``` btcli subnet register ``` ### Subnet emissions Each subnet is granted a percentage of the blockchain [emission](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/concepts/subnets/subnet-emissions). High-emission subnets are more profitable, but also more competitive. Miners receive 41% of the emission for the subnet. The emission for each subnet can be found in multiple places in taostats: * Subnet pages ![Taostats subnet header on an older layout showing identity metadata and a stat strip of emissions, recycled, registration cost, and key counts](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-subnet-header-stats-strip.jpg) * [https://x.taostats.io/subnets](https://x.taostats.io/subnets) ![Taostats subnet top emissions view on an older layout with color-coded subnet legend cards above a multi-line emission-share time-series chart](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-subnet-top-emissions-legacy.jpg) ![Taostats subnets list on an older layout, a sortable table with ID, name, registration date, owner, emission, recycled, and lifetime columns](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-subnets-list-legacy-table.jpg) * [taostats.io](taostats.io) homepage: ![Taostats root metagraph table on an older layout with rank, UID, hotkey, TAO staked, and per-subnet percentage columns](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-root-metagraph-legacy-table.jpg) ### Miner Incentive distribution Subnets with higher emissions tend to be more competitive for miners, meaning that the risk of being deregistered is high. The competitiveness of a subnet can be seen on subnet[individual subnets distribution graphs](https://taostats.io/subnets/netuid-19/#distribution). For example: ![Snapshot of Subnet 13](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/4805237b-Screenshot_2024-09-06_at_13.56.56.jpg) ![Snapshot of subnet 19](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/daa6b371-Screenshot_2024-09-06_at_13.47.59.jpg) In the first screenshot, there is a large distribution of emissions. In this subnet, a well-performing miner can keep above the threshold for de-registration. In the second screenshot, the range for Active keys is very narrow (0.00401 - 0.00441). Any minor disruption to your miner may cause you to fall to the bottom of the emissions chart and be deregistered. ### Node Registration cost You can view the current registration cost at [https://taostats.io/subnets/netuid-\/#registration](https://taostats.io/subnets/netuid-19/#registration). Competitive subnets generally cost more to register a node than non-competitive nodes. #### Deregistration ![Taostats subnet deregistration data dual-axis time-series chart plotting incentive and emission of recently deregistered miners over time, with summary stat pills](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-subnet-deregistration-data-chart.jpg) When a new miner is registered, the lowest miner out of immunity is deregistered. Any new miner should aim to be above the last deregistration incentive before they exit immunity. ### Immunity period Each new node is granted immunity for a defined number of blocks. When you have immunity, you cannot be de-registered. The [Node Registration](https://taostats.readme.io/docs/node-registration) page describes how to use the BTCLI to determine a subnet's immunity period. ### Emission Distribution Some subnets evenly distribute emissions to all miners based on the trust value calculated by [Yuma Consensus](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/concepts/chain-runtime/consensus), while others may limit emissions. For example, Subnet 6 currently only distributes emissions to the top x miners: ![Subnet 6 miner emissions - showing only top 6-10 miners receive any significant emission. (Feb. 5, 2024)](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/3dc6554-image.png) Learning to read the [Subnet Metagraph table](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/understanding-taostats/subnets/metagraph#miner-view) is a helpful step to better understand emission distribution. See [Subnet emission overview](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/concepts/how-emission-works/split-alpha-out) for a description of how tao is allocated to miners. ## De-registration The registration tab for each subnet lists the number of registrations in the last 24 hours. Assuming a full subnet - this is equal to the number of de-registrations. [https://taostats.io/subnets/netuid-\/#registration](https://taostats.io/subnets/netuid-13/#registration) ![Taostats subnet registrations table with UID and hotkey columns plus a 24-hour registration count stat and rows-per-page selector](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-subnet-registrations-table.png) The new miners will have immunity for a set period, so a large number of new registrations will push your miner closer to the bottom of the incentive list (by percentage). Each subnet has a different immunity period, which If you know your miner's emission value, it is possible to mouse over the incentive chart to see where you stand: ![Taostats miner incentive scatter chart across UIDs with a hover tooltip showing UID, incentive, rank, registration block, keys, and immunity status](https://beta.taostats.io/images/docs/understanding-taostats/taostats-miners-incentive-chart-tooltip.jpg) > [!NOTE] > **Sort the metagraph by incentive (increasing) show 100 entries at a time.** > > If your miner appears here, you are in the bottom 100 miners (note that all the validators also appear in this list) > > This view will also show miners with immunity, so depending on the competitiveness of the Subnet, miners on this view are very close to being de-registered.