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Mining Race

A real, maintained, well-rated app selling a 120-day rental of 100 TH/s for about $375 - against hashpower that grosses $370.56 over the same period at the July 2026 hashprice, before a 10% mining fee, a 2% transaction fee, electricity, and the 27–33% of every dollar the compensation plan pays upline.

Reviewed July 30, 2026 Founded Soft-launched late 2023; public launch announcement 9 December 2023; entity incorporated in Dubai 12 July 2023 Confidence: Medium-High
FGRADE
1.3/10
Weighted composite

RETURN EXCEEDS THE REVENUE OF THE THING SOLD

A Mining Card sells about 100 TH/s for about 120 days at roughly $375 and is promoted at an 18% return - roughly $442 - while the hashrate it represents grosses $370.56 gross at the 13 July 2026 hashprice, before any cost at all.

The question you came with

Can you actually make money with Mining Race?

NO No - not on the numbers this company publishes

No, and the arithmetic is the whole answer. A Mining Card sells about 100 TH/s for about 120 days at roughly $375, and it is promoted at an 18% return, about $442. At the 13 July 2026 hashprice of $30.88 per PH/s per day, 100 TH/s over 120 days grosses $370.56. That is the gross revenue of the thing being sold, before the 10% mining fee, before the 2% transaction fee, before electricity, and before anybody upline is paid.

Then the entry. The $100 Starter Spot is an annual, non-refundable software subscription that the company's own Terms confirm does not include mining power. It produces nothing on its own. It is also where the highest commission rate in the plan sits, 10% on the Spot against 5% on the mining products themselves. Realistic first-year outlay is about $450 to $500, and even at the promoted 18% the minimum participant does not clear it in year one.

The structure closes the loop twice. An account cannot be opened without an invite code from an existing participant, so no member of the public can become a customer without first being recruited by somebody who is paid for recruiting them. And referral commissions are claimable only at 0.005 BTC, roughly $310, and only if the Spot is linked to a card or device above 100 TH/s. You must have your own capital in the return-bearing product before a cent of your recruitment income becomes real.

Several things here are better than the category and belong on the record. Payouts are made in real Bitcoin rather than a proprietary token. The application is real, actively maintained and well rated. The entity is registered with named, identifiable owners, the Terms are published and detailed, and the company itself never states the 18% figure anywhere, which comes from promoters. Two regulators published warnings in 2026: Austria on 20 March, classifying the flagship as an unauthorized alternative investment fund, and Estonia on 4 June. Both are warning notices, not findings of fraud.

What it costs to be in
$100

the Starter Spot - an annual, non-refundable software subscription that produces no mining power at all. Realistic first-year entry is about $450–500, and there is no ceiling.

What would have to change
  • A promoted return that does not exceed the gross revenue of the hashpower being sold. Until the 18% sits below what 100 TH/s can earn over 120 days, the difference has to be funded from somewhere other than mining.
  • A public sign-up route. While an invite code from an existing participant is mandatory, the structure cannot produce a single customer who was not first recruited by somebody paid for recruiting them.
  • Referral income that does not require buying the investment product. The Green Spot clause withholds incentive earnings unless a card above 100 TH/s is linked, which forces every earning recruiter to also be an investor.
  • An income disclosure, and with it the number that settles the central question: what share of Mining Cards reach their outcome target inside 120 days rather than entering Extended Status. Nothing of the kind is published anywhere.

That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.

$370.56
Gross revenue of the hashrate one card sells
100 TH/s for 120 days at $30.88 per PH/s per day, Hashrate Index, 13 July 2026 - against a card costing about $375
~$442
The return promoted on that same card
18% - a promoter-sourced, watchdog-reported figure that does not appear anywhere on miningrace.com
0
Retail customers the structure can produce
an invite code from an existing participant is mandatory; there is no public sign-up of any kind
2
National regulator warnings published in 2026
Austria 20 March, Estonia 4 June - warning notices about an unauthorised offering, not findings of fraud

Legal status

CONTESTED IN TWO JURISDICTIONS, NOT FOUND UNLAWFUL ANYWHERE - and the letter grade below is not a legality verdict. Austria’s Financial Market Authority published a warning notice on 20 March 2026 under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG stating that Miningrid L.L.C. / Mining Race has no authorization to distribute Mining Race Cards in Austria and that those cards are to be classified as an Alternative Investment Fund. Estonia’s Finantsinspektsioon published a public warning on 4 June 2026 concerning unregistered investment services - recorded here on a specialist watchdog blog’s reporting, because the regulator’s own page could not be retrieved. Both are warning notices about an unauthorised offering. Neither is a finding of fraud, a prosecution, a fine or a court judgment. No criminal charge, indictment, conviction, cease-and-desist order, consent order, civil penalty, civil judgment, asset freeze or receivership against the company or any named officer could be located anywhere. No German, Swiss, Slovenian, UK or US regulator has published anything, and US persons are contractually prohibited from participating. In the UAE the company holds a valid trade license for IT, cloud and software services - which authorises neither mining nor the offering of investment products.

Confidence: Medium-High

Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.

What this actually is

Follow the money

A Dubai-registered mobile application, published by Miningrid L.L.C. and promoted alongside a separate marketing entity called ICONX, that sells rentals of Bitcoin hashpower and hosted mining hardware to a European retail audience - chiefly in Germany, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland - through a multi-level compensation plan. Entry requires an invite code from an existing participant; there is no public sign-up.

What is genuinely good here belongs first, because it is real. The app works, is well built and is actively maintained: 50,000+ Android installs, 4.3 out of 5 on both major stores, last updated 18 July 2026. The integrated wallet is described as non-custodial. Payouts are made in actual Bitcoin - there is no proprietary token with an operator-set price, no staking wrapper, no locked instrument - which removes an entire class of abuse common in this category. The company does not claim your phone is mining anything; its products are framed as hashrate rental and hosted machines, which is a more honest framing than much of the sector. The corporate entity is real and named, with shareholders disclosed by percentage. The Terms and Privacy Policy are published, detailed, and define every product and every withdrawal threshold. And the company’s own current content carries a genuine risk disclaimer stating that rewards are not guaranteed and that past activity does not indicate future rewards.

The product stack has five layers and the first one mines nothing. A "Spot" is an annual, non-refundable software subscription - Race, Starter at $100, Premium at $300, Platinum at $1,000, then Prime and Diamond at prices that are not published - which the Terms confirm "doesn’t include mining power; it only permits adding power through devices, cards, or Cores." Onto the Spot a participant plugs Mining Cards, the flagship product, defined in the Terms as "power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days, which remains active until the applicable outcome target is achieved" and priced by secondary sources at roughly $350–400; Cores at roughly $25, each representing 1 TH/s for a year and each an entry into weekly and per-block prize draws; hosted Mining Devices; and, from mid-2026, "Power Nodes" measured in kilowatts. No prices for any of it appear anywhere on the company website.

The compensation plan is not a referral scheme with tiers - it is a full multi-level structure. Direct commissions pay 10% on the Spot subscription and 5% on the mining products, so the highest rate in the plan attaches to the one thing that produces nothing. A binary residual pays 10% weekly on the weaker leg with carry-forward. A unilevel "Grid Bonus" pays on downline mining power across twenty levels - 4%, 2%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.5% and then 0.1% on each of levels 6 through 20, totaling 9.5% - and a "Grid Link" extension reaches as far as 45 levels, activated per Mining Core owned, so that buying more $25 Cores literally buys more commission depth. Nine ranks run from Star 600 at $600 of counted volume to Icon at $9,000,000, with rank bonuses reported from $100 to $300,000. Every rank requirement is a volume threshold; none is a customer count.

The decisive fact requires no allegation from anyone. At a Bitcoin hashprice of $30.88 per petahash per day - Hashrate Index, 13 July 2026 - 100 TH/s across 120 days grosses $370.56 before electricity, hosting, pool fees or operator margin. The card costs about $375 and promoter material advertises a return of about 18%, roughly $442. The company then deducts a 10% mining fee and a 2% transaction fee, and the compensation plan consumes an estimated 27–33% of every dollar before any hashpower is bought. The promised outcome is larger than the maximum possible gross revenue of the thing being sold. Two national regulators published warnings in 2026 - Austria on 20 March, classifying the card as an unauthorised Alternative Investment Fund, and Estonia on 4 June - and those are warning notices about an unauthorised offering, not findings of fraud.

Where $1,000 of participant money goes

An estimate, and labeled as one - but bounded by the published commission rates and the fees stated in the company’s own Terms. Modeled on a typical mix of one $100 Starter Spot, two Mining Cards at roughly $400, and a few Cores. The company publishes no financials of any kind, so the residual line is a residual, not a disclosure.

10% 9% 8% 63%
Direct referral commission - 10% on the Spot, 5% on products (~$58)Binary residual - 10% of the weaker leg (~$100)Grid Bonus - up to 9.5% across 20 levels, less breakage (~$85)Grid Link to 45 levels plus amortised rank bonuses (~$55)Platform fees - 2% transaction plus a 10% mining fee (~$75)Residual for hashpower, hosting, infrastructure and operator margin (~$627)
ProductPricePays
Race Spot (entry tier)
Cores only - no Mining Card and no Mining Device capacity. The Terms define a Spot as a subscription that makes you eligible to add products; it "doesn’t include mining power" itself. Minimum term twelve months, fee expressly non-refundable, one free Mining Core bundled.
not published
annual
10%
Starter Spot
Up to one Mining Card and one Mining Device. Price triangulated from three independent secondary sources - a watchdog blog, a German promoter site and an affiliate content site - which agree on $100. Not published by the company anywhere.
$100/yr
annual
10%
Premium Spot
Up to nine cards and nine devices. Filling those slots at $350–400 a card is $3,150–3,600 on top of the subscription. Same three-source price provenance.
$300/yr
annual
10%
Platinum Spot
Up to thirty cards and thirty devices - $10,500–12,000 in cards on top. Prime (50 cards) and Diamond (150 cards) sit above it at prices published nowhere; a Diamond Spot supports $52,500–60,000 of cards. The recorded "capped at $500" entry range is wrong at this end by an order of magnitude.
$1,000/yr
annual
10%
Mining Card ("Stable Mining")
The flagship. "Power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days, which remains active until the applicable outcome target is achieved." Not fixed hashrate, not a fixed term, and no owned asset. If the target is missed the card enters "Extended Status" at a "reduced speed" that is nowhere quantified. Price is bracketed from one promoter source (~$350) and one watchdog source (~$400); no official price page exists.
~$350–400
per ~120 days
5%
Mining Core
1 TH/s for a year - about $11.27 of gross mining revenue at July 2026 hashprice, roughly 45 cents per dollar spent, before the 10% mining fee. Its real functions are lottery entry (a weekly Sprint Race open only to Cores enrolled that week, plus a per-block Block Race) and commission depth, since each Core unlocks additional Grid Link levels. The Cores Racing page publishes no prize amounts and no odds.
~$25/yr
annual
5%
Mining Device (hosted ASIC)
No models named, no facility named, no hosting fee schedule published. No refunds. Delivery expressly not guaranteed - the company "may connect computing power equivalent to the ordered device power" until physical delivery. It may switch the machine off or relocate it if earnings do not cover electricity, and on non-payment may seize, sell, reconfigure or retain it. Additional service fees may apply after four years.
not published
one-time + hosting
5%
Power Node
Added mid-2026: "infrastructure products representing computing capacity in kilowatts," explicitly "not direct mining hardware ownership." No price, no term, no return figure and no facility disclosed - a claim on kilowatts rather than on hashrate. Its introduction at a point when traffic estimates suggest recruitment was slowing is worth noticing.
not published
not published
5%
Background check

Who runs it, and what they ran before

SY
Solaiman Younis Mohamed Esmaeil Alrifai
Founder and Board Member; 80% shareholder of Miningrid L.L.C.

Named, with a disclosed shareholding percentage, in a public register check reported by a claims-recovery firm and consistent with the December 2023 launch release. That matters and should be said plainly: unlike the large majority of operations in this category, this one is not anonymous. No regulatory action, fraud judgment or criminal proceeding against him could be located in any source reviewed.

HS
H.H. Sheikh Saeed bin Hasher Al-Maktoum
Chairman; 20% shareholder

A member of Dubai’s ruling family. In Dubai’s promotional-company ecosystem, royal-family association is a marketable asset and such names appear on the boards of a very wide range of ventures. Its presence establishes reputational borrowing. It does not establish operational oversight, it does not constitute government backing, and it emphatically does not constitute a financial license - the Austrian FMA notice is the direct rebuttal to any promoter who implies otherwise.

RA
Rami Alsridi · Ali Abuzinjal
Managing Director and Board Member; Community Director

Both named in the December 2023 launch release; Abuzinjal is separately listed as "Founder & CEO" on an ICONX-branded site. Named natural persons with identifiable roles are a genuine point in this file’s favor. What is not disclosed anywhere is the legal relationship between Miningrid L.L.C., "Mining Grid", "Mining Race" and ICONX - which entity contracts with the participant, which holds the money, and which pays the commissions. If money is taken by one entity, promises made by a second, and commissions paid by a third whose license reportedly lapsed in May 2025, there is no clear counterparty.

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Governance note
The field leadership, and how to read it

The corporate side is Emirati and previously unknown in this space. The recruiting side - the people who run the European events, occupy the top of the compensation plan and actually enrol retail participants - is reported by two independent outlets, an investigative writer and a specialist industry watchdog blog, to be a roster of leaders who came out of previously collapsed crypto and packages schemes. That is watchdog journalism, not a regulatory finding, not an indictment and not a court judgment. No charges are recorded against any of them in connection with this operation, and prior association with a venture that later failed is not itself wrongdoing - some will have lost money themselves. What it establishes is narrower and still material: a prospective participant is not being recruited by a neutral party, but by someone whose income depends on the purchase and who has, on this reporting, moved on before when a vehicle stopped paying.

Registered address

Bur Dubai, Al Quoz Industrial Area 2, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The address above is the one named in the Austrian FMA’s warning notice. The Google Play developer record gives a different Dubai address, care of a real-estate construction company in Oud Metha. There are no financials of any kind - no audited accounts, no unaudited accounts, no revenue figure, no user-funds figure, no proof of reserves, and no disclosure of the split between mining revenue and new-subscription inflow, which is the single number that would settle whether this is a mining business or an inflow business. UAE mainland limited liability companies are not required to file publicly accessible annual accounts, so the opacity is lawful. It is also total. The only scale proxies available are third-party traffic estimates reported by a specialist watchdog blog - roughly 25,000 monthly visits in February 2026 (Slovenia 51%, Germany 30%, Austria 9%) falling to roughly 12,600 in May 2026 (Germany 76%, Slovenia 10%, Switzerland 5%, United States 4%) - and 50,000+ Android installs. Traffic estimates are noisy and the app rather than the website is the primary interface, so the halving is suggestive rather than probative. The geographic footprint is squarely European retail, which is exactly the population the two warnings address. The company’s own documents also disagree with themselves on jurisdiction: the Terms apply the laws of the United Arab Emirates, while the Privacy Policy cites the British Virgin Islands’ Data Protection Act 2021 and BVI anti-money-laundering regulations. No BVI entity was identified in any register.

Compensation plan

What has to be true for you to get paid

To coverYou need
Break even as the minimum participant, year one more than the card can pay
$100 Spot + ~$375 card = $475 out; even at the promoted 18% the card returns ~$442, less 2% ≈ $433 - net −$42 before the next $100 renewal
Break even on what the hashrate can actually produce a second and third card cycle, funded from elsewhere
100 TH/s × 120 days grosses $370.56; less the 10% mining fee and 2% transaction fee ≈ $327; less power and operator margin, realistically $130–200 to the participant against $475 out
Withdraw a single cent of referral commission 0.005 BTC accrued plus a 100 TH/s purchase
the "Green Spot" gate: ~$310 of accrued incentive earnings AND a linked card or device above 100 TH/s - roughly $350–400 of your own capital committed first
Clear a positive year as a builder about 40 recruits and $4,750 of your own capital
Platinum Spot $1,000 + 10 cards $3,750; ~$1,900–2,100 in commissions plus ~$4,425 of promoted card returns against $4,750 out - and every one of the 40 sits in the first row of this table

Read this twice

Every figure here uses Bitcoin at $62,042 and a hashprice of $30.88 per PH/s per day, both from Hashrate Index on 13 July 2026, and holds the Bitcoin price flat so that the mechanics rather than market luck are what is being measured. The card price is taken at the midpoint of the $350–400 range that two independent secondary sources bracket, because the company publishes no price anywhere. Read the first row carefully: it is calculated on the promoted 18% return, the most favorable assumption available, and it still does not break even. The reason is the $100 Spot - a subscription that produces no mining power at all, that is non-refundable, that must be renewed annually, and that has to be earned back before anything else can be. The second row is what the arithmetic supports rather than what is advertised, and the gap between the two rows is the whole file. The third row is the "Green Spot" clause, and it is worth stating in the plainest terms: recruiting three people at typical ticket size produces roughly $179 of commission, which is about 0.0029 BTC against a 0.005 BTC threshold, so that participant cannot withdraw any of it - they must recruit five or six, and hold an active 100 TH/s card throughout, before the money becomes touchable at all. The fourth row is the only scenario in this document that produces a meaningful positive outcome, and it requires forty other people to be in the first row. Two further mechanics change the picture and both cut the same way. Auto-renew, which the promoted setup leaves on, converts every earning into a new card rather than into cash - so the most attractive scenario on paper is the one in which the participant receives nothing at all during the year and holds the largest position inside the platform. And if the Spot is allowed to lapse, cards pause, Core Race rewards become unclaimable, and after 180 days the Spot is deleted "causing loss of associated activities and balances." One honest caveat in the operator’s favor: none of this assumes a payment failure. No halt, suspension, exit or collapse has been reported as of 30 July 2026.

Run your own numbers

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10% of a $100 Spot subscription plus 5% of roughly $900 of mining products is about $55–60 per recruit. The binary residual and the 20-level Grid Bonus are excluded because they depend on your recruits recruiting rather than on anything you do. Cost is a realistic $450 entry - the mandatory Spot plus a first Mining Card - spread across a year; the $100 headline is not an entry price. One thing the model cannot show and you should not forget: under the Green Spot clause your referral earnings are "withheld and inaccessible for withdrawal" unless you personally hold 0.005 BTC and a linked device or card above 100 TH/s, so none of this is yours until you have put roughly $375 of your own capital into the return-bearing product. No income disclosure exists. Your own subscription cost of $37.5/mo is included.

Your money

What it costs to replace this yourself

What Mining Race sells, stated precisely, is 100 TH/s of SHA-256 hashpower for about 120 days at roughly $350–400, plus a $100-a-year access fee, minus a 10% mining fee and a 2% transaction fee. Every line below prices that same capability on the open market at the reference date of 13 July 2026, using a public hashprice index, retail ASIC pricing and ordinary exchange and wallet options. No competing income program is named or needed; these are simply what the components cost.

What they sell youWhat you'd use insteadYour cost
Mining Card - 100 TH/s for ~120 days, ~$375The gross revenue that same hashrate produces, at $30.88/PH/s/day$370.56
The same hashrate as an owned assetRetail current-generation ASIC at $25.70/TH - ~$2,570 for 100 TH/s, amortised over four years~$214 per 120 days
Electricity, bundled and unquantified~1.35 kW at 13.5 J/TH → 3,888 kWh over 120 days$194–$389
Platform load - 10% mining fee + 2% transaction feeFee at a major public mining pool, depending on payout scheme0%–4%
Non-custodial wallet, bundled in the $100 SpotAny of a dozen established free non-custodial Bitcoin wallets$0
"Education Center" blockchain explainers, bundled in the SpotCommodity material available free from exchanges, wallets and open documentation$0
Exposure to the Bitcoin priceBuying $375 of the coin on any exchange - instant, self-custodied, liquid, no counterparty, no 120-day waitspread only
Mining Core - $25 for 1 TH/s for a yearThe gross mining revenue 1 TH/s produces in a year at the same hashprice$11.27
$100 annual Spot subscriptionNothing, because it delivers no hashpower and no service that is not free elsewhere$0
Total as sold
~$450–500 in year one, for a rental that expires
Total, built yourself
~$408 of owned capacity plus power, or $0 for a wallet and price exposure

Price-to-value

The comparison does not turn on the premium being large - it turns on the fact that the rental is priced above the gross revenue of the hashrate it represents. A buyer who wants Bitcoin exposure buys Bitcoin: fractions of a percent in spread, instant settlement, self-custody, no counterparty and no lock-up. A buyer who wants mining exposure buys hardware, which is a resaleable asset, or the listed equity of a company that mines. A buyer who wants a wallet and some educational content pays nothing at all. And there is no rational buyer for the $100 Spot in any scenario: it delivers no hashpower, no exclusive content and no service that is not free elsewhere. Its function is to be a gate - and a 10% commission event.

Odds of profit

Three operators, five horizons

Probability of cumulative net profit

Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%3 mo6 mo1 yr3 yr5 yr 4% 2% 9%
Minimum participant - Starter Spot $100 plus one Mining Card at ~$375, auto-renew off, recruits nobodyReinvestor - same entry, auto-renew left on, earnings roll into new cards, nothing is ever withdrawnBuilder - Platinum Spot $1,000 plus ten cards - ~$4,750 committed - recruiting actively toward a 40-person organization

Minimum participant

Starter Spot $100 plus one Mining Card at ~$375, auto-renew off, recruits nobody

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 2% −$475
6 mo 9% −$300
1 yr 7% −$390
3 yr 5% −$950
5 yr 4% −$1,450

Reinvestor

same entry, auto-renew left on, earnings roll into new cards, nothing is ever withdrawn

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 1% −$475
6 mo 2% −$475
1 yr 3% −$575
3 yr 3% −$775
5 yr 2% −$975

Builder

Platinum Spot $1,000 plus ten cards - ~$4,750 committed - recruiting actively toward a 40-person organization

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 2% −$4,750
6 mo 8% −$3,400
1 yr 14% −$1,900
3 yr 11% −$5,600
5 yr 9% −$9,200

Methodology note. These are MODELED outcome ranges, not claims, not company data and not observed results - and the modeling is doing more work here than in most reports on this site, because Mining Race publishes no income disclosure of any kind. There is no rank table, no average, no median and no zero-earner rate to anchor against. ANCHORED to what is published or reliably sourced: the $100/$300/$1,000 Spot prices, agreed by three independent secondary sources; the $350–400 card price, bracketed by one promoter source and one watchdog source; the ~$25 Core; the commission rates of 10% on Spots and 5% on products, the 10% binary on the weaker leg and the 9.5% twenty-level Grid Bonus, all of which a promoter explainer and a watchdog reconstruction state identically; the published 2% transaction fee and 10% mining fee; the 0.002 BTC and 0.005 BTC withdrawal thresholds and the Green Spot requirement, all from the company’s own Terms; and the 13 July 2026 hashprice of $30.88 per PH/s per day. MODELED by us: the proportion of each cohort in cumulative profit at each horizon, the medians and the top and bottom bands, the cohort definitions, and the assumed rate at which cards actually deliver - because the company does not publish the proportion of cards that reach their outcome target within 120 days versus entering Extended Status, which is the single most important statistic in the business. The Reinvestor row deserves a specific note: its cash position stays flat and negative at every horizon not because the on-screen balance falls but because auto-renew means nothing is ever withdrawn. That participant’s dashboard may well show a compounding number. What they have received is nothing. One calibration that cuts in the operator’s favor: no payment halt has been reported, so these figures assume the platform continues to pay as described rather than modeling a failure.

Go-to-market

Where you are actually allowed to promote this

Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.

Channel
Status
Notes
Open public sign-up
DOES NOT EXIST
An invite code from an existing participant is mandatory to open an account at all. No member of the public who has simply heard of Bitcoin mining can become a customer. Every single participant enters through a recruiter, and that recruiter is paid - which is the structural fact that makes a retail customer impossible inside this design. A March 2026 Google Play review puts it directly: "There should be an option in it, not everyone has a code."
Prices on the company website
NONE PUBLISHED, ANYWHERE
The homepage, the FAQ, the Cores Racing page, the Terms and the company’s own July 2026 "complete beginner’s guide" to Spot subscriptions all publish no dollar figure. The guide describes five tiers and their capacity limits and states no price at any point. Prices are visible only inside the app after you have an invite code, or in promoter material. A prospect must be recruited before they can learn what anything costs.
Published income disclosure
NONE EXISTS
No income disclosure statement, no earnings disclosure, no average-earnings statement, no affiliate earnings report - nothing on the website, nothing referenced in the Terms, nothing in promoter material, nothing reported by any watchdog. For an operation selling what a European regulator has classified as a collective investment product, this is heavier than it would be in a consumer-goods MLM. The proportion of Mining Cards reaching their outcome target within 120 days versus entering Extended Status is the most important number in the business, and it is not published.
Income-claims and advertising policy for promoters
NONE PUBLISHED
There is no policies-and-procedures document, no advertising policy, no social-media policy and no compliance code. The Terms’ "Prohibited Conduct" section bans unlawful use, network attacks, attempts to control 50% of network hashrate, and market manipulation. It says nothing about earnings representations, guaranteeing returns, disclosing an affiliate relationship, lifestyle or wealth imagery, or invoking regulatory, government or royal endorsement. The only enforcement lever anywhere in the document is the operator’s right to terminate an account at its sole discretion - a lever pointed at the participant, not a compliance regime pointed at the promoter.
Promoter blogs and "18% profit" headlines
UNRESTRAINED
The predictable consequence of the row above. A German promoter site published in February 2025 under the headline "so sicherst du dir 18 % Profit mit Mining Race" - how to secure yourself 18% profit - describing a "simple, sustainable and profitable solution" from $100 and emphasising automatic reinvestment under which capital supposedly grows on its own. Others offer zero-euro starter guides, exclusive calculation examples, registration assistance and Zoom onboarding. None of this appears on miningrace.com, and there is no published rule against it and no evidence of enforcement.
In-person business-opportunity meetings
RUNNING, WITH A REVEALING AGENDA
Branded "Mining Race x ICONX" events are being held in Europe - one listed at a Glasgow hotel with an agenda of registration at 18:15, business overview at 19:00 and training at 20:00. That is an opportunity meeting, not a product demonstration, and the running order is the tell.
Company risk disclaimer
PUBLISHED AND GENUINE
The June 2026 ecosystem guide states: "Mining rewards are not guaranteed. They vary based on Bitcoin market price, network mining difficulty, your level of activity, and eligibility criteria at the time of participation. Past activity is not an indicator of future rewards." The Terms add that the company "does not guarantee that mining devices will achieve the calculated profitability." Real credit: the company itself never publishes the 18% figure, and it never claims a phone mines Bitcoin.
One promoter publishing honest caveats
THE EXCEPTION, AND WORTH NAMING
A German promoter site writing in March 2026 states explicitly that earnings are never guaranteed, that returns depend on the Bitcoin price, network activity and pool performance, and that this is "kein festverzinsliches Produkt" - no fixed-interest product. It still promotes the opportunity and still publishes the ~$350 card price. But in a field publishing "18% profit" headlines, someone volunteering the caveats without being required to deserves the credit.
Prohibited jurisdictions and sanctions screening
SPECIFIED IN THE TERMS
Users must warrant they are not United States persons, and Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria are excluded along with any jurisdiction under EU, UAE, UN, US or UK sanctions, with OFAC and equivalent list screening. A KYC framework exists on paper. Two caveats: roughly 4% of estimated May 2026 traffic came from the United States, which suggests the prohibition is not effectively enforced; and KYC is triggered by account recovery and reactivation rather than by opening an account, which places the identity chokepoint precisely at the moment a user is trying to get back in.
The evidence

Red flags and green flags

Red flags

15
1The advertised return is larger than the gross revenue of the hashpower being sold
A card is defined in the company’s own Terms as roughly 100 TH/s for roughly 120 days, costs about $375, and is promoted at about $442. That hashrate grosses $370.56 at the 13 July 2026 hashprice of $30.88 per PH/s per day - before the 10% mining fee, before the 2% transaction fee, before roughly $194 of electricity, and before the 27–33% of every dollar the compensation plan pays upline. This requires no allegation from anyone: it is the company’s product specification against a public market index.
2A national financial regulator has classified the flagship product as an unauthorised Alternative Investment Fund
Austria’s FMA, 20 March 2026, under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG: "Dieser Anbieter hat keine Berechtigung zum Vertrieb von Mining Race Cards im Bundesgebiet, welche als Alternativer Investmentfonds im Sinne des AIFMG einzustufen sind" - this provider has no authorization to distribute Mining Race Cards in the federal territory, which are to be classified as an Alternative Investment Fund within the meaning of the AIFMG. Stage: a published warning notice by a competent national authority. Not an enforcement action, not a fine, not a court finding, not a finding of fraud.
3A second national regulator issued a public warning for unregistered investment services
Estonia’s Finantsinspektsioon, 4 June 2026, naming Mining Race / Miningrid LLC and both domains. Recorded here on the reporting of a single specialist industry watchdog blog, which quotes the authority directly; the regulator’s own page could not be retrieved. Stage: a published public warning, reported by journalism rather than read as a primary document.
4The "Green Spot" clause makes referral income unwithdrawable unless you buy the investment product
From the company’s own Terms: incentive earnings are claimable at a 0.005 BTC threshold, roughly $310, and only if the Spot is linked to a mining device or Stable Mining card exceeding 100 TH/s. Without it, incentive earnings from community mining are "withheld and inaccessible for withdrawal." Roughly $350–400 of your own capital must sit in the return-bearing product before a cent of your recruitment income becomes real - and if the card lapses, the accrued commission becomes inaccessible again. It is the most participant-hostile clause in the document.
5The highest commission rate in the plan is paid on a product that produces nothing
10% on the Spot subscription against 5% on the actual mining products. The Terms confirm the Spot "doesn’t include mining power — it only permits adding power through devices, cards, or Cores." Paying double the rate on the pure access fee is a statement of what the plan values.
6Buying more $25 Cores buys more commission depth
The Grid Link extension reaches up to 45 levels and is "activated per Mining Core owned," with "each core unlocks additional level access." A Core is nominally a 1 TH/s mining product; functionally it is also the currency for purchasing access to deeper levels of other people’s purchases. That is a direct, explicit, priced link between spending money and increasing recruitment income.
7There is no public sign-up - an invite code is mandatory
Stated on the company’s own Cores Racing page. No retail customer can exist inside the structure, because no one can become a customer without first being recruited by someone who is paid for it.
8No prices are published anywhere on the company website
Not on the homepage, the FAQ, the Cores Racing page, the Terms, or the July 2026 beginner’s guide to Spot subscriptions, which describes all five tiers and their capacity limits without stating a single dollar figure. You must be recruited to learn the cost.
9Zero verifiable evidence of mining infrastructure
No named pool - the FAQ says only that the platform "connects with third-party pools" - no pool statistics page, no worker or account name, no aggregate hashrate figure, no wallet address, no on-chain evidence, no named data center or hosting partner, no photographs, no ASIC models, no fleet inventory, no energy contract or power disclosure despite selling "Power Nodes" in kilowatts, no whitepaper and no audit or proof-of-hashrate attestation of any kind.
10Balances are forfeited if you stop paying the annual subscription
Expired Spots are deleted after 180 days without renewal, "causing loss of associated activities and balances." On expiry, connected devices suspend mining, Mining Cards pause and Core Race rewards become unclaimable. A lapse of six months destroys everything accrued.
11You can pay for a mining machine and never receive one
The Terms state the company "does not guarantee the actual delivery or verification of the mining device" and may connect "computing power equivalent to the ordered device power" until physical delivery - indefinitely, with no refund. It may also switch the machine off or relocate it if earnings do not cover electricity, and on non-payment may terminate accounts, reconfigure and retain devices, or seize and sell them.
12"Extended Status" is an open-ended term extension controlled entirely by the operator
A card that has not achieved its outcome target after 120 days continues "at a reduced speed" that is nowhere quantified. Combined with cards delivering "an average of" 100 TH/s rather than a fixed rate, every lever that determines a participant’s yield is administrative and unpublished.
13The field leadership is drawn from previously collapsed crypto and packages schemes
Reported by two independent outlets - an investigative writer and a specialist industry watchdog blog. This is watchdog journalism, not a regulatory finding, not an indictment and not a court judgment; no charges are recorded against any of them in connection with this operation, and prior association with a venture that later failed is not itself wrongdoing. It is recorded because a prospect should know that the person recruiting them is not a neutral party.
14No income disclosure of any kind, for a product a regulator calls an investment fund
No rank table, no average, no median, no zero-earner rate. A disclaimer says results may vary; a disclosure says what actually happened to the people who tried. Only the first exists here - and the proportion of cards reaching their outcome target rather than entering Extended Status, the most important statistic in the business, is unpublished.
15The company’s own documents cite two different offshore jurisdictions, with no arbitration clause
The Terms apply the laws of the United Arab Emirates; the Privacy Policy on the same site cites the British Virgin Islands’ Data Protection Act 2021 and BVI anti-money-laundering regulations, and no BVI entity was identified in any register. There is no arbitration clause, so a retail participant in Germany, Austria or Slovenia is pointed at UAE courts. Meanwhile the Dubai license covers "IT, cloud and software services" - not mining, not financial services - with no VARA permit and no DFSA authorization on the register check reported.

Green flags

10
1Payouts are made in real Bitcoin, not a proprietary token
There is no in-house coin with an operator-set price, no staking wrapper and no locked instrument. That removes an entire class of abuse that is endemic in this category, and it is the single reason the securities dimension scores 1 rather than 0. If payouts ever migrate into an in-house asset, that reading changes completely.
2A real, functioning, actively maintained application
50,000+ Android installs, 722 Android ratings averaging 4.3 out of 5, 4.3 on the Apple store, last updated 18 July 2026, blog posts published 20 July and modified 27 July 2026. This is a live product with people working on it, not an abandoned shell - and app quality is not evidence about the underlying economics, but it is a real fact and it is stated as one.
3The company does not claim your phone is mining
Its products are framed as hashpower rental and hosted hardware. A smartphone contributes no meaningful SHA-256 hashrate to Bitcoin, and many apps in this category pretend otherwise. This one does not, and it should not be graded as though it did.
4An integrated non-custodial wallet
Per the app description and the company’s own material. If implemented as described, Bitcoin that reaches the wallet is genuinely the user’s, outside the operator’s control. This has not been independently verified - it would require testing the app with a funded account - but the claim is made plainly and it is the right architecture.
5A real registered entity with named, identifiable owners
Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai DET trade license 1207912, incorporated 12 July 2023, shareholders named with percentages of 80% and 20%, a Managing Director and Community Director named, a physical address and a phone number. No anonymity anywhere. If this fails, there are identifiable natural persons attached to it, which is more than most operations in this category offer.
6Detailed, published Terms and Conditions
Every product is defined, both withdrawal thresholds are stated, and the 2% transaction fee and 10% mining fee are disclosed rather than hidden. The content of those terms is severe - but disclosed severe terms are better than undisclosed ones, and many operators in this space publish nothing comparable.
7A genuine risk disclaimer, and the company never states the 18% figure
"Mining rewards are not guaranteed. They vary based on Bitcoin market price, network mining difficulty, your level of activity, and eligibility criteria at the time of participation. Past activity is not an indicator of future rewards." The Terms reference only an unquantified "outcome target." The 18% number is promoter-sourced and watchdog-reported, and that distinction is real and is made throughout this report.
8No collapse, exit, payment halt or asset freeze as of 30 July 2026
No dated announcement of frozen payouts, no forum record of mass failures, no regulator statement about withheld funds, no insolvency and no wind-down. Whatever the model’s sustainability, it is currently operating, updating and paying.
9No charge, indictment, conviction, cease-and-desist, consent order, fine or judgment anywhere
Against the company or any named officer, in any jurisdiction, on anything that could be located. Two published regulator warnings are not enforcement, and the absence of enforcement is neither approval nor a strike - it is recorded so that no reader mistakes a warning notice for a court finding.
10Explicit sanctions screening and prohibited-jurisdiction terms
United States persons excluded, along with Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any jurisdiction under EU, UAE, UN, US or UK sanctions, with OFAC and equivalent list screening and a KYC framework. On paper this is the right structure, and it is not universal in this category.
What would move this grade

We would like to be wrong about this

Upward

  • Verifiable mining evidence: a named pool with a public statistics page, an aggregate hashrate figure, a named hosting facility, or a third-party proof-of-hashrate attestation. This is the single highest-value disclosure available and it would move both product and payout immediately.
  • Removal of the "Green Spot" gate so that referral earnings are withdrawable without buying the return-bearing product, publication of prices on the public website so a prospect can evaluate before being recruited, and abolition or sharp reduction of the 10% Spot commission in favor of product-weighted pay.
  • Withdrawal or successful challenge of the Austrian FMA’s Alternative Investment Fund classification, or authorization obtained under the AIFMG or an equivalent regime, together with a real income disclosure - including the proportion of cards that reach their outcome target within 120 days rather than entering Extended Status.

Downward

  • Launch of a proprietary token, or migration of payouts out of Bitcoin into an in-house asset with an operator-set price. That is the classic pre-collapse move and it would take the securities dimension to zero and remove the only real mitigation in this file.
  • Escalation anywhere from warning to enforcement - a cease-and-desist order, injunction, asset freeze or criminal referral - or a further national warning, particularly from the German or Swiss authorities given that Germany accounts for roughly three quarters of estimated traffic.
  • Any adverse change to withdrawal terms - a raised threshold, a new fee, a lock-up, a "verification" or "tax release" payment demand, or a suspension - or credible dated evidence of failed withdrawals at scale. A further fall in hashprice would also widen an already unfundable gap.
The better trade

Grade is F, score 1.34. A real app, a real registered company and payouts in real Bitcoin - attached to a card that is priced above the gross revenue of the hashrate it represents.

Three things about this operation are better than the grade implies and they should be said first, because they are true and because the grade does not rest on any of them. The app is real, well rated and actively maintained - 50,000+ installs, 4.3 stars on both stores, last updated 18 July 2026 - with an integrated wallet described as non-custodial. Payouts are made in actual Bitcoin rather than in a proprietary token with an operator-set price, which removes an entire class of abuse that is endemic in this category. And the company does not claim your phone is mining anything; its products are hashrate rentals and hosted machines, which is a more honest framing than most apps of this kind offer. Add a genuinely registered Dubai entity with shareholders named by percentage, published and detailed Terms, and a real risk disclaimer on the company’s own current content stating that rewards are not guaranteed and that past activity does not indicate future rewards. None of that is small.

The grade rests on one calculation, and it uses only the company’s own product definition and a public market index. A Mining Card is, in the Terms’ words, "power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days, which remains active until the applicable outcome target is achieved." At a Bitcoin hashprice of $30.88 per petahash per day - Hashrate Index, 13 July 2026 - 100 TH/s across 120 days grosses $370.56. That is revenue before electricity, before hosting, before pool fees and before any operator margin at all. The card costs about $375. Promoter material advertises a return of about 18%, roughly $442. The company then takes a 10% mining fee and a 2% transaction fee, and the compensation plan consumes an estimated 27–33% of every dollar before any hashpower is bought - leaving perhaps $240–270 of purchasable hashrate against a promised outcome of $442. The gap has to be funded, and the only remaining source is the next participant’s money. Three premises that this file was expected to confirm did not survive contact with the documents: entry is not free, because an invite code and a paid subscription are both mandatory and realistic entry is about $450–500; entry is not capped at $500, because Platinum alone is $1,000 a year and a Diamond Spot supports more than $50,000 of cards; and "referral tiers" badly understates a binary plus a twenty-level unilevel plus a forty-five-level Grid Link across nine ranks.

Two further things belong in a reader’s hands, stated at exactly their evidential weight. First, two European regulators published warnings in 2026 - Austria on 20 March, formally classifying the Mining Race Card as an Alternative Investment Fund distributed without authorization under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG, and Estonia on 4 June, concerning unregistered investment services. Those are warning notices about an unauthorised offering. They are not findings of fraud, not prosecutions, not fines and not court judgments, and no charge, conviction, cease-and-desist order or civil judgment against this company or any named officer could be located anywhere. Second, and more consequential for anyone actually thinking about joining: whether anything is genuinely mined could not be established, and whether withdrawals function could not be established either way. No pool, wallet, hashrate figure, facility or audit exists publicly; and on payouts there is no dated first-hand proof in either direction - the positive app-store reviews state no amount, date or transaction hash, the negative reports come from a claims-recovery firm with a commercial interest in finding claimants, and the Trustpilot page returned an access error. A participant would be taking the withdrawal function on trust.

1

If you want Bitcoin exposure, buy Bitcoin

The card gives you a 120-day claim on someone else’s ledger. Buying the coin on an ordinary exchange gives you the same directional exposure for a fraction of a percent in spread, settles immediately, sits in your own self-custodied wallet, has no counterparty, no lock-up, no 0.005 BTC threshold, no 10% mining fee and no 180-day deletion clause. If the answer to "why not just buy the coin" is "because the card pays 18%," then what is being bought is the return, not the mining.

2

If you want mining exposure, own something

Retail current-generation ASIC hardware was quoted at $25.70 per terahash on the same July 2026 index, so 100 TH/s of owned machine is roughly $2,570 - about $214 of amortised cost per 120 days, and at the end you still hold a resaleable asset. Listed hosting providers publish their rates and their facilities. Publicly listed miners file audited accounts you can read. Every one of those is a way to take mining risk with something you can inspect, value and sell.

3

Do the $370.56 sum before anyone shows you a dashboard

One hundred terahash for one hundred and twenty days, at the published hashprice on the day you are asked to buy. That is the ceiling on what the product can gross with the operator taking nothing and electricity costing nothing. Compare it to the card price and to the promised return. If the promise is larger than the ceiling, the difference is coming from somewhere other than mining, and you are entitled to ask where. Hashprice is published daily and free.

4

Read the Green Spot clause before you recruit anybody

Referral commissions are "withheld and inaccessible for withdrawal" unless your Spot is linked to a device or card above 100 TH/s, and the threshold is 0.005 BTC - roughly $310. In practice, three recruits at typical ticket size produce about $179 of commission and none of it is touchable. Before you introduce a friend, work out exactly what you would have to spend, and how many people you would have to enrol, before the money becomes real. Then decide whether you want that conversation to be the basis of the friendship.

The card costs about $375 and promises about $442; the hashrate it represents grosses $370.56 - before the mining fee, the transaction fee, the electricity and the commissions.
Scorecard

Nine dimensions, weighted

Comp structure & KoscotDoes the plan pay for recruitment or for sales to real customers?
20%
1.0
Start with the gate, because it decides everything downstream. An account cannot be opened without an invite code from an existing participant - the Cores Racing page states the requirement and a March 2026 Google Play review complains about it directly. There is no open sign-up, which means no member of the public can become a customer without first being recruited by someone who is paid for recruiting them. A retail customer cannot exist inside this structure. On top of that gate sits a plan whose rates point the wrong way: the highest commission rate anywhere in it, 10%, is paid on the Spot - an annual software subscription that the company’s own Terms confirm "doesn’t include mining power" and that produces nothing - against 5% on the mining products themselves. A 10% binary residual pays on the weaker leg weekly, with carry-forward. A unilevel Grid Bonus pays 4/2/1/0.5/0.5 and then 0.1% on each of levels 6 to 20, totaling 9.5% across twenty levels with fifteen of those levels set at a tenth of a percent, which makes them decorative for anyone without a very large organization. A "Grid Link" extension reaches up to 45 levels. Nine ranks run from Star 600 at $600 of counted team volume to Icon at $9,000,000, with rank bonuses reported between $100 and $300,000 - and every single rank requirement is a volume threshold, not a customer count, not a retail-sales test, not a product-satisfaction measure. The cleanest structural indicator in the whole plan is this: the Grid Link is "activated per Mining Core owned," and "each core unlocks additional level access." Buying more $25 Cores buys more commission depth. That is a direct, explicit, priced link between handing over money and increasing recruitment income, and it is about as clean a Koscot-style indicator as a plan produces. It scores 1 rather than 0 only because commissions attach to purchases of notional products rather than to bare sign-up fees alone.
Securities exposureAny passive return on capital? Howey, staking, tokens, withdrawal friction.
15%
1.0
This dimension asks one question: does the participant hand over capital against a promised return produced by someone else’s efforts. Here it is met about as squarely as it can be. Roughly $375 buys a Mining Card, which the company’s own Terms define as "a product for power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days, which remains active until the applicable outcome target is achieved." An outcome target is a target return; the product runs until it is hit, and if it is not hit within 120 days the card enters "Extended Status" and continues "at a reduced speed" that is nowhere quantified. Promoter material puts that target at 18%. Austria’s Financial Market Authority did not merely decline to supervise this: on 20 March 2026 it published a notice under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG stating "Dieser Anbieter hat keine Berechtigung zum Vertrieb von Mining Race Cards im Bundesgebiet, welche als Alternativer Investmentfonds im Sinne des AIFMG einzustufen sind" - "this provider has no authorisation to distribute Mining Race Cards in the federal territory, which are to be classified as an Alternative Investment Fund within the meaning of the AIFMG." That is an affirmative characterisation by a competent European national authority that the flagship product is a collective investment undertaking, distributed without authorization. Estonia’s Finantsinspektsioon followed on 4 June 2026 with a public warning about unregistered investment services. Both are warning notices, not enforcement actions. Withdrawal friction compounds the exposure: thresholds of 0.002 BTC and 0.005 BTC, a 10% penalty on sub-threshold withdrawals, auto-renew that converts earnings into a new card by default rather than into cash, roughly 120-day cycles, and deletion of a lapsed Spot after 180 days "causing loss of associated activities and balances." It scores 1 rather than 0 for a distinction that is real and that the reader deserves: payouts are made in actual Bitcoin, not in a proprietary token. There is no in-house coin with an operator-set price, no staking wrapper and no locked instrument, and the integrated wallet is described as non-custodial. That removes an entire class of abuse common in this category. None of this is a judgment on crypto as an asset class or on hashrate rental as a business - the test applied here is capital in against a promised return, and this product meets it on its own written definition.
Ownership & track recordWho runs it, what did they run before, and what happened to it.
15%
2.0
The genuine positives first, because they are unusual for the category and should not be glossed. There is a real registered entity: Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism trade license 1207912, incorporated 12 July 2023, license recorded as valid at the time of the check reported. Shareholders are named with percentages - 80% and 20% - a Managing Director and a Community Director are named, and there is a physical address and a phone number. If this operation fails, there are identifiable natural persons attached to it. That is more corporate substance than most operations in this category offer. Against it: the licensed activity is "IT, cloud and software services." That is a commercial trading license. It is not a license to mine cryptocurrency, not a license to operate a collective investment scheme, not a license to offer securities, not a VARA permit and not a DFSA authorization - and neither the company nor the associated marketing entity appeared in the VARA or DFSA registers on the date they were checked in August 2025. "Officially registered with the Dubai Government" is therefore true and confers no consumer protection, no capital adequacy requirement, no segregation of client funds, no compensation scheme and no supervision of the investment products being sold. The relationship between Miningrid L.L.C., "Mining Grid", "Mining Race" and ICONX is disclosed nowhere; the ICONX marketing license was reported expired on 19 May 2025; and the company’s own two documents invoke two different offshore legal frameworks. Finally, and stated exactly as it should be: two independent outlets - an investigative writer and a specialist industry watchdog blog - report that the field leadership is drawn from leaders who came out of previously collapsed crypto and packages schemes. That is watchdog journalism, not a finding. No charges and no convictions are recorded against any of them in connection with this operation. The score reflects that restraint; it is 2 rather than lower because the corporate transparency is real.
Product reality & demandWould a rational buyer purchase this if no income offer existed?
12%
2.0
The fairness credit comes first and it is substantial. There is a real, functioning, maintained application on both major stores: 50,000+ Android installs, 722 Android ratings averaging 4.3 out of 5, 4.3 on the Apple store, and a last update dated 18 July 2026. This is a live product with an engineering team behind it, not an abandoned shell. It integrates a wallet described as non-custodial, so Bitcoin that reaches it is the user’s. And - a point that deserves saying loudly in this particular category - the company does not claim that your phone is mining anything. Its products are framed as hashpower rental and hosted hardware. It is not a tap-to-earn game economy dressed up as mining, and it should not be graded as though it were. Against that: the substance underneath the app is unverifiable to the point of absence. The FAQ says only that the platform "connects with third-party pools" and names none. There is no published aggregate hashrate figure, no pool account or worker name, no public pool statistics page, no wallet address receiving payouts, no on-chain evidence, no named data center, no named hosting partner, no photographs, no ASIC models, no fleet inventory, no energy contract or power capacity disclosure - despite the 2026 introduction of "Power Nodes" sold in kilowatts - no whitepaper and no audit or proof-of-hashrate attestation of any kind. Meanwhile the $100 Spot delivers no hashpower and no service that is not free elsewhere, and a $25 Core delivers 1 TH/s, which grosses roughly $11.27 of Bitcoin over its one-year life at July 2026 hashprice - about 45 cents of mining revenue per dollar spent, before fees. Nobody buys a $25 Core, or a $100 subscription that mines nothing, for what it produces. They are bought for the lottery entries, the commission depth and the income offer, and absent that offer the product line has no rational buyer.
Participant economicsReal cost in, realistic money out, and whether they publish the numbers.
10%
1.0
The headline number a prospect hears is "$100." The realistic figure is not $100. An invite code is mandatory and unpriced. The Starter Spot is $100 a year, non-refundable, and produces nothing on its own. One Mining Card at roughly $350–400 is effectively mandatory rather than optional, because it is the only real earning product at Starter level and because the Terms make it a precondition for withdrawing any referral income at all. That is a realistic first-year outlay of about $450–500, and there is no ceiling above it: the Premium route runs $3,450–3,900, Platinum $11,500–13,000, and a Diamond Spot supports up to 150 cards, which is $52,500–60,000 in cards alone. On top of the entry price sit 12% in disclosed fees - a 2% transaction fee on every transaction and a 10% "mining fee" on mining power, both taken before anything reaches a withdrawable balance - plus a stack of fees whose amounts are not published at all: hosting fees on devices deducted automatically from credits, a monthly late-payment fee, a reactivation fee, an additional service fee after four years of device use, and a 10% penalty on any withdrawal below 0.002 BTC. And there is no income disclosure of any kind. Not a rank table, not an average, not a median, not a zero-earner rate. For an operation selling what a European regulator has characterised as a collective investment product, the absence is heavier than it would be in an ordinary consumer-goods MLM: the one statistic that would settle the central question - what proportion of Mining Cards reach their outcome target within 120 days versus entering Extended Status - is the most important number in the entire business, and it is not published. Even on the promoted 18%, the minimum participant does not break even in year one, and the reason is the $100 Spot: a pure loss item that must be earned back before anything else can be.
Price-to-valueWhat the same capability costs on the open market.
8%
1.0
This is the arithmetic that decides the file, and it requires no allegation from any watchdog - only the company’s own product definition and a public market index. A Mining Card is, in the Terms’ own words, "power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days." Bitcoin hashprice on 13 July 2026 was $30.88 per PH/s per day, per Hashrate Index. Hashprice is gross revenue per unit of hashrate: what the hashpower earns before electricity, hosting, pool fees or any operator margin whatsoever. One hundred TH/s is 0.1 PH/s, so $3.088 a day, so $370.56 across 120 days. The card costs about $375 and is promoted at a return of roughly $442. The maximum theoretical gross revenue of the thing being sold is less than its price, before the 10% mining fee, before the 2% transaction fee, and before electricity - which at 13.5 joules per terahash is roughly 3,888 kilowatt-hours over the period, about $194 at an industrial five cents. Set against the open market: the same $375 buys roughly $214 of amortised capacity in a current-generation retail ASIC at $25.70 per terahash, which is a resaleable asset the buyer would own rather than a rental that expires; or it buys $375 of Bitcoin on any exchange, with the same directional price exposure, instant liquidity, self-custody and no counterparty; or, if what was actually wanted was a Bitcoin wallet and some educational content, it buys those for nothing, because free non-custodial wallets are abundant and the blockchain explainers bundled into the Spot are commodity material. The 12% fee load compares against 0% to 4% at the major public mining pools. And the $25 Core returns about 45 cents of gross mining revenue per dollar spent.
Payout sustainabilityCan the company fund the plan out of margin, or only out of inflow?
8%
1.0
A payout structure is sustainable when the money promised out can be produced by the activity the money buys. Here it cannot, and the gap is not marginal. The promoted outcome per card is roughly $442. The maximum possible gross revenue of the hashrate that card represents, at zero cost and with the operator taking nothing, is $370.56. That shortfall exists before anyone is paid a commission - and roughly 27% to 33% of every dollar a participant spends is consumed by the compensation plan before any hashpower can be bought at all: direct commissions of 10% on Spots and 5% on products, a 10% binary residual on the weaker leg, up to 9.5% through the twenty-level Grid Bonus, thin per-level Grid Link rates over as many as 45 levels, and amortised rank bonuses. Add the 2% transaction fee and the 10% mining fee and perhaps 58% to 68% of the money survives to buy hashpower, hosting, infrastructure and operator margin combined. On that arithmetic a $375 card can fund on the order of $240–270 of actual hashrate, which grosses roughly $225–250 over 120 days before power. The promised outcome is roughly double what the purchasable hashrate can gross. The difference has to come from somewhere, and the only remaining source is the money paid in by the next participant. That is an analytical conclusion drawn from published commission rates, published fees, the company’s own product specification and a public hashprice index - it is not a regulatory finding and no regulator has made it. It scores 1 rather than 0 for two things that are true today: payouts are made in real Bitcoin, and no payment halt, suspension, exit or collapse has been reported as of 30 July 2026. The machine is currently paying.
Marketing conductIncome claims, regulator run-ins, hype, deadline stacking.
7%
2.0
Credit where it is due, and there is more of it here than the rest of this file would lead a reader to expect. The company publishes a real risk disclaimer on its own current content: "Mining rewards are not guaranteed. They vary based on Bitcoin market price, network mining difficulty, your level of activity, and eligibility criteria at the time of participation. Past activity is not an indicator of future rewards." Its Terms add that it "does not guarantee that mining devices will achieve the calculated profitability." It does not claim phone mining. And it never itself states the 18% figure anywhere - the corporate Terms speak only of an unquantified "outcome target." That distinction is real and it is made here every time the number appears: the 18% return claim is promoter-sourced and watchdog-reported, and it is not published on miningrace.com. Against that, two structural failures. First, the company publishes no prices at all - not on the homepage, not in the FAQ, not on the Cores Racing page, not in the Terms, and not in its own July 2026 "complete beginner’s guide" to Spot subscriptions, which describes all five tiers and their capacity limits while stating no dollar figure at any point. A prospective participant cannot learn what anything costs from the operator’s website. They must be recruited first. Second, there is no policies-and-procedures document, no advertising policy, no social-media policy, no income-claims policy and no compliance code of any kind; the Terms’ "Prohibited Conduct" section bans network attacks and market manipulation and says nothing about earnings representations, guaranteed returns, affiliate disclosure, lifestyle imagery or invoking regulatory or royal endorsement. The predictable result is a promoter layer running headlines such as "so sicherst du dir 18 % Profit" - secure yourself 18% profit - alongside compounding projections and hotel business-opportunity meetings, entirely unrestrained. One German promoter site does publish honest caveats, stating plainly that returns are not guaranteed and that this is no fixed-interest product; that is worth naming as the exception.
Operator terms & exitWho owns the customer, what you forfeit, how hard it is to leave.
5%
1.0
The document itself is detailed, published and defines every product, every withdrawal threshold and the two headline fees - genuinely better than the category norm, and the credit belongs on the record. The content is another matter. The subscription fee is a non-refundable fee; mining device buyers assume a "no-refund policy." The company may "terminate your access to the Mining Race Platform and Services for any reason and in our sole and absolute discretion," and reserves the power to freeze or block assets in the Mining Race wallet. Delivery of a purchased machine is expressly not guaranteed - Mining Race "does not guarantee the actual delivery or verification of the mining device" and may instead connect "computing power equivalent to the ordered device power" until physical delivery, which means a buyer may pay for hardware and hold a database entry indefinitely. Devices may be switched off, relocated, reconfigured, retained, seized or sold. Expired Spots are deleted after 180 days without renewal, "causing loss of associated activities and balances." Governing law is that of the United Arab Emirates and there is no arbitration clause, so a retail participant in Germany, Austria or Slovenia with a dispute is pointed at UAE courts - while the Privacy Policy on the same website cites British Virgin Islands data-protection and anti-money-laundering law, with no BVI entity named anywhere. And then the "Green Spot" clause, which is the most participant-hostile provision in the document. Referral commissions - "Incentive Earnings" - are claimable only at a 0.005 BTC threshold, roughly $310, and only if the Spot is linked to a mining device or Stable Mining card exceeding 100 TH/s. Without that link, incentive earnings from community mining are "withheld and inaccessible for withdrawal." In plain terms: you must have $350–400 of your own capital committed to the return-bearing product before a cent of your recruitment income becomes real, and if your card lapses the accrued commission becomes inaccessible again. It forces every earning recruiter to also be an investor, and it converts referral income into a lever that keeps money inside the system.
Weighted composite
1.34
F

Dimension profile

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Comp structure& Koscot 1.0 Securitiesexposure 1.0 Ownership &track record 2.0 Product reality& demand 2.0 Participanteconomics 1.0 Price-to-value 1.0 Payoutsustainability 1.0 Marketingconduct 2.0 Operator terms& exit 1.0

Hard caps that bind here

Ceiling at F - non-binding, because the arithmetic gets there first a cap on this file would have rested on three things, each of which is real and documented. First, the Austrian Financial Market Authority’s published notice of 20 March 2026 under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG, classifying the Mining Race Card as an Alternative Investment Fund distributed without authorization - an affirmative characterisation by a competent European national authority that the participant is buying a collective investment product rather than a service. Second, the Estonian Finantsinspektsioon’s public warning of 4 June 2026 concerning unregistered investment services, recorded on a watchdog blog’s reporting because the regulator’s own page could not be retrieved. Third, the "Green Spot" clause in the company’s own Terms, which withholds referral income entirely unless the participant has personally bought a device or card exceeding 100 TH/s - fusing recruitment income and investment capital into a single instrument. State the consequence plainly: no cap binds here. The nine weighted dimension scores already compose to 1.34 out of 10, which is an F several times over on the arithmetic alone, and every one of those nine numbers was reached from the company’s own published documents and a public hashprice index without reference to any warning notice. The ceiling described above sits far above where the file actually lands, so it does no work. It is recorded because a reader is entitled to know what the ceiling would have been, and because if the AIF classification were withdrawn or successfully challenged and the Green Spot gate removed, the ceiling would lift while the arithmetic would not move at all.

The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.

Sources consulted

What we read

Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.

  1. Mining Race Terms and Conditions (company document) - definitions of Spot, Core, Mining Card, Mining Device, Mining Credits and Incentive Earnings; 0.002 BTC and 0.005 BTC thresholds; Green Spot / 100 TH/s requirement; 10% below-threshold fee; 180-day deletion of expired Spots; six Spot tiers
    Policies & proceduresTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai) · 2025-08-18archived copy

    Mining Race Terms and Conditions (miningrace.com/terms-and-conditions) - definitions of Spot, Core, Mining Card, Mining Device, Mining Credits and Incentive Earnings; "power rental of an average of 100 TH/s for an average of 120 days, which remains active until the applicable outcome target is achieved"; Active and Extended Status; 0.002 and 0.005 BTC thresholds and the Green Spot requirement; 2% transaction fee and 10% mining fee; non-refundable subscription; no delivery guarantee on devices; 180-day deletion of expired Spots; UAE governing law with no arbitration clause; termination at sole and absolute discretion; prohibited jurisdictions and KYC triggers

  2. Mining Race FAQs - "Mining Race connects with third-party pools" (no pool named), Mining Card leasing of computing power, Spot-tier device and card limits, Mining Credits definition
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy

    Mining Race FAQ, Cores Racing page and blog - "connects with third-party pools" with no pool named; Core defined as 1 TH/s; Sprint Race weekly on the first block after 06:00 GMT Wednesday with only that week’s enrolled Cores eligible; Block Race per block; invite code required; no prize amounts or odds published; "Race SPOT Subscription | Complete Beginner’s Guide" published 20 July 2026 and updated 27 July 2026 listing five tiers and capacities with no prices; June 2026 ecosystem guide introducing Power Nodes and carrying the risk disclaimer verbatim

    Not established by this document: The two specific blog posts named in the prose - "Race SPOT Subscription | Complete Beginner's Guide" (published 20 July 2026, updated 27 July 2026) and the June 2026 ecosystem guide introducing Power Nodes - could not be located at any retrievable URL on miningrace.com; the site's blog index did not surface in search. The company pages cited above carry the same tier structure and the same absence of published prices.

  3. Mining Race "Cores Racing" page - Core = 1 TH/s; Sprint Race weekly on the first BTC block after 06:00 GMT Wednesday, open only to Cores enrolled that week; Block Race every block; invite code required; no prize amounts or odds published
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy
  4. Mining Race "How It Works" - Mining Grid, Proof of Hash Power (100 TH/s or 4.32 EH per 30 days), Green/Yellow/Red Spot status table
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy
  5. "An Introduction to Mining Race" - company paper (PDF), setting out the Mining Grid, Racers, Spots and the 18% incentive reallocation across six Leader levels
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy
  6. "MINING RACE Explainer" - company incentive/profit-allocation PDF (74% Miner Earnings, 18% Incentive Payouts to up to 6 Leaders, 8% Community Fuel)
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy
  7. Mining Race terminology page - RACE = "Redistributed Assets Coordination Ecosystem", Community Fuel 8%, Fuel Tank, Racing vs Auto-Pilot Mode, 1M Racer cap
    Company documentTier 1Mining Race (Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai)archived copy
  8. FMA investor warning, 20 March 2026 - "Die FMA warnt vor dem Abschluss von Geschäften mit Miningrid L.L.C / Mining Race" (German original; Bur Dubai Al Quoz address; Mining Race Cards classified as an AIF; § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG)
    RegulatorTier 1Österreichische Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde (FMA), Austria · 2026-03-20archived copy

    Austrian Financial Market Authority warning notice, 20 March 2026 (fma.gv.at) - Miningrid L.L.C. / Mining Race, both domains, Bur Dubai address, § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG, operative German sentence quoted verbatim in this report; German version directly retrieved, English version returned an access error. Context: German-language reporting notes the FMA issued 47 warnings in just over six months in this period

  9. FMA investor warning, 20 March 2026 - English version, "The FMA warns against conducting business with Miningrid L.L.C/ Mining Race"
    RegulatorTier 1Österreichische Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde (FMA), Austria · 2026-03-20archived copy
  10. Hashrate Index Roundup, 13 July 2026 - spot hashprice $30.88/PH/s/day; 7-day network hashrate 879 EH/s; S21XP at $25.70/TH
    Open-market comparisonTier 4Hashrate Index (Luxor Technology) · 2026-07-13archived copy

    Hashrate Index roundup, 13 July 2026 - hashprice $30.88 per PH/s per day; network hashrate 879 EH/s; difficulty 127.17T; Bitcoin $62,042; retail current-generation ASIC at $25.70 per TH; commentary that hashprice sits at or below breakeven for many miners

  11. Bitcoin.com News, 12 July 2026 - difficulty adjustment to 127.17 trillion at block 957,600, hashrate down 7.9% in ten days
    Open-market comparisonTier 4Bitcoin.com News · 2026-07-12archived copy
  12. Google Play listing - "Mining Race", developer MININGRID L.L.C, Oud Metha / Bur Dubai address
    Company documentTier 1Google Play / MININGRID L.L.Carchived copy

    Google Play listing (developer MININGRID L.L.C, Dubai address, +971 4 881 0808, 50,000+ installs, 722 ratings, 4.3 stars, updated 18 July 2026) and Apple App Store listing (seller Miningrid LLC, 4.3 stars, 45–46 ratings, dated individual reviews) - plus the December 2023 launch release naming the Chairman, Founder and Board Member, Managing Director and Community Director

    Not established by this document: Install counts, star ratings and the 18 July 2026 update date quoted in the prose are volatile store metadata rather than fixed document content; the listings are cited for developer identity, Dubai address and release date, which are stable.

  13. Apple App Store listing - "The Mining Race", provider Miningrid LLC, released 18 August 2023
    Company documentTier 1Apple App Store / Miningrid LLC · 2023-08-18archived copy
  14. Launch press release, 12 December 2023 - "Global Bitcoin Mining Community Launched by Mining Grid: Introducing the 'Mining Race' Platform" (board: H.H. Sheikh Saeed bin Hasher Al-Maktoum; Solaiman Al-Rifai, Founder and Board Member; Rami Alsridi, Founder and Managing Director)
    ReportingTier 3Mining Grid, distributed via Bitcoin.com News (PRESS RELEASE) · 2023-12-12archived copy
  15. My Startup World, 7 December 2023 - "Mining Grid launches first Mining Race in the Middle East"
    ReportingTier 3My Startup World · 2023-12-07archived copy
  16. Channel 360 MEA, 19 December 2023 - interview naming Eng. Ali Saeed AbuZinjal as Community Director and Co-Founder of Mining Grid
    ReportingTier 3Channel 360 MEA · 2023-12-19archived copy
  17. Finantsinspektsioon warning notice, 4 June 2026 - MiningRace / Miningrid L.L.C., Dubai; "Provision of investment services without authorisation" (bilingual PDF)
    RegulatorTier 1Finantsinspektsioon (Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority) · 2026-06-04archived copy

    BehindMLM - specialist industry watchdog blog, single outlet, no legal standing: compensation plan reconstruction, Spot tier prices, card price "start at $400", 118% per 90 days characterisation, nine-rank table with $600 to $9,000,000 volume thresholds and $100–$300,000 rank bonuses, traffic estimates, and the report of the Estonian Finantsinspektsioon warning of 4 June 2026 quoting the authority directly. The outlet’s own "Ponzi" and "securities fraud" characterisations are its editorial opinion and are not attributed to any regulator here - Not retrievable, and recorded as such: the Trustpilot page for miningrace.com (HTTP 403, score and reviews unread); the Estonian regulator’s own warning page (404 on attempted URLs); the official ICONX compensation-plan presentation (JavaScript-gated); two German law-firm articles (HTTP 403); and a TikTok "Mining Race keine Auszahlung" topic page, which exists but whose individual videos were not retrieved or dated

    Not established by this document: Still not retrievable, and recorded as such: the Trustpilot profile for miningrace.com (HTTP 403); the official ICONX compensation-plan presentation (JavaScript-gated); the two German law-firm articles (HTTP 403); and the TikTok "Mining Race keine Auszahlung" topic page, whose individual videos were not retrieved or dated. One item on this list has been resolved - the Estonian warning, cited above and again at index 5.

  18. BehindMLM - "IconX Review: Mining Race Dubai crypto Ponzi" (compensation-plan reconstruction: Spot tiers $100/$300/$1000, mining card ~$400 paying 118% per 90 days, nine ranks from $600 to $9,000,000 counted volume, 20-level ROI match)
    ReportingTier 3BehindMLM · 2025-01-12archived copy
  19. BehindMLM - "Mining Race securities fraud warning from Estonia", quoting the Finantsinspektsioon notice of 4 June 2026
    ReportingTier 3BehindMLM · 2026-07-03archived copy
  20. BehindMLM - "Mining Race securities fraud warning from Austria"
    ReportingTier 3BehindMLM · 2026-03-28archived copy
  21. Danny de Hek, "Mining Race Review: Following The Money, The Promoters And The Questions Nobody Wants To Answer" (12 June 2026)
    ReportingTier 3Danny de Hek (dehek.com) · 2026-06-12archived copy

    dehek investigation (dehek.substack.com) - journalism: Core priced at roughly $25 for 1 TH/s for a year; Sprint Race prize reported at roughly $20,000 weekly, single-sourced; referral depth described as up to 50 levels; the promoters’ prior-venture roster; and the finding that the least visible part of the operation is the mining itself

    Not established by this document: No dehek.substack.com post exists for this investigation; it is published on dehek.com, whose article pages are behind a reCAPTCHA interstitial and could not be fetched directly. The full text is cited from the syndicated episode notes. The ~$20,000 weekly Sprint Race prize figure and the "up to 50 levels" referral depth quoted in the prose do not appear in the retrieved text of that article and remain single-sourced.

  22. Same investigation, full text as published podcast episode notes - Core at ~$25 for 1 TH/s for one year; promoter roster; the finding that verifiable evidence of the mining operation could not be found
    ReportingTier 3Danny de Hek, "What de Hek" (episode transcript/notes) · 2026-06-12archived copy
  23. BE Conflict Management - "Mining Race / Mining Grid & ICONX in Dubai: IT licence instead of 'crypto mining'" (English): Miningrid L.L.C. founded 12 July 2023, DET license for IT/cloud/software only; shareholders Solaiman Younis Mohamed Esmaeil Alrifai 80% and Shaik Saeed Bin Hasher Bin Maktoum 20%; ICONX Marketing Management L.L.C. license expired 19 May 2025; no VARA or DFSA entries as of 28 August 2025
    ReportingTier 3BE Conflict Management (claims-recovery firm - an interested party) · 2025-09-01archived copy

    BE Conflict Management (bekm.us) - a claims-recovery and dispute-management firm with a direct commercial interest in identifying loss-making schemes; treated as reliable on checkable register facts and labeled as an interested party on characterisations: DET license 1207912, founding 12 July 2023, activity "IT, cloud and software services", shareholders and percentages, ICONX Marketing Management L.L.C. license expired 19 May 2025, no VARA or DFSA entries as of 28 August 2025; separately, unnamed and undated client accounts of a €700 partial payout, "impossible" withdrawals, advance-fee demands framed as tax or release payments, and losses in the five-to-six-figure range

    Not established by this document: The DET trade-license number 1207912 is quoted only in BEKM's own text; the underlying Arabic license copy and the WKO Außenwirtschaftscenter correspondence they describe are not published, so the number cannot be verified against a registry record.

  24. BE Conflict Management - German original of the same investigation
    ReportingTier 3BE Conflict Management (claims-recovery firm - an interested party) · 2025-09-01archived copy
  25. BE Conflict Management - "Mining Race und Mining Grid: Bitcoin-Mining oder digitales Schneeballsystem?" (client accounts of withdrawal problems; 118% per 90 days; $100–$1,000 annual license fees)
    ReportingTier 3BE Conflict Management (claims-recovery firm - an interested party) · 2025-05-30archived copy
  26. BE Conflict Management - "FMA-Warnung bestätigt erste Zweifel" (follow-up after the Austrian warning)
    ReportingTier 3BE Conflict Management (claims-recovery firm - an interested party) · 2026-03-29archived copy
  27. passives-einkommen.team, 6 February 2025 - "Bitcoin-Mining neu gedacht: So sicherst du dir 18 % Profit mit Mining Race!" (promoter site; "bis zu 18 % Gewinn in ca. 90 Tagen", Starter $100 / Premium $300 / Platinum $1,000, referral code embedded)
    ReportingTier 3passives-einkommen.team (Mining Race / ICONX affiliate) · 2025-02-06archived copy

    German promoter and affiliate material, labeled as such throughout - passives-einkommen.team (6 February 2025) publishing the "secure yourself 18% profit" headline and the full bonus plan: 10% on Spots, 5% on cards, devices and Cores, 10% binary on the weaker leg, Grid Bonus of 4/2/1/0.5/0.5 then 0.1% on levels 6–20, Grid Link to 45 levels activated per Core; cloudmining.blog on Stable versus Speed cards, 18% ROI and credit expiry; frauenpowerdigital.com (March 2026) pricing the card at roughly $350 while stating explicitly that earnings are not guaranteed and this is no fixed-interest product; klickreich.de and digitales-mareiketing.de on withdrawal mechanics and auto-renew

    Not established by this document: frauenpowerdigital.com (March 2026, pricing the Mining Card at roughly $350), klickreich.de and digitales-mareiketing.de could not be located at retrievable URLs. Referral links carried by these promoter pages are deliberately not reproduced in the citations above.

  28. passives-einkommen.team - "Der Mining Race Bonus Plan erklärt": Direct Bonus 10% on Spot licenses and 5% on devices, cards and Cores; 10% binary on the weaker leg; Grid Bonus 4/2/1/0.5/0.5% then 0.1% to level 20; Grid Link to 45 levels unlocked per Core
    Compensation planTier 3passives-einkommen.team (Mining Race / ICONX affiliate) · 2025-06-18archived copy
  29. cloudmining.blog (German edition) - "Mining Race Empfehlungsprämien: 4 Wege zum Verdienen" (Race Credits at 1 credit = 1 USDT, $30,000 weekly binary cap, Grid Bonus table, 0.002 BTC payout minimum)
    Compensation planTier 3cloudmining.blog (affiliate publication) · 2026-02-23archived copy
  30. cashfreak.net - "Mining Race Bonusplan: 4 Wege zu passivem Einkommen" (rank thresholds Team Leader $5,000 / Regional Director $15,000 / RVP $30,000 with Platinum Spot license)
    Compensation planTier 3cashfreak.net (affiliate publication) · 2025-06-20archived copy
  31. passives-einkommen.team - "Mining CORE von Mining Race" (1 TH/s per Core; Sprint, Infinity and Block Races; claim of a connection to Antpool; "bis zu 18 % in 90 Tagen oder 100 % pro Jahr")
    ReportingTier 3passives-einkommen.team (Mining Race / ICONX affiliate) · 2025-04-18archived copy
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What we could not get

  • Whether anything is actually mined at all. No named pool, no pool statistics page, no worker or account name, no aggregate hashrate figure, no wallet address receiving payouts, no on-chain evidence, no named data center or hosting partner, no ASIC models, no fleet inventory, no energy contract, no whitepaper and no audit or proof-of-hashrate attestation could be found. Absence of published evidence is not evidence of absence - hashrate can lawfully be bought wholesale and resold without disclosing the counterparty - but nothing here can be verified from outside, and the mined balance is, from the participant’s seat, a number in the operator’s database.
  • Whether withdrawals function, in either direction. There is no dated first-hand proof - no transaction hashes, no timestamped screenshots, no amounts - that payouts work, and none that they have stopped. The positive app-store reviews mention "fast payouts" while stating no amount, date or proof, and the samples are tiny; the negative reports come from a claims-recovery firm with a commercial interest in finding claimants and concern unnamed, undated clients; the Trustpilot page returned HTTP 403 and could not be read. No suspension, halt or policy change was found either. A participant is being asked to take the withdrawal function on trust.
  • The exact price of a Mining Card. Bracketed at $350–400 from one promoter source and one watchdog source; no official price page exists anywhere. The Core price of roughly $25 rests on a single source. The Race, Prime and Diamond Spot prices, all Mining Device prices and models, the hosting fee schedule, and the price, term and return of Power Nodes are published nowhere at all.
  • The company’s own wording for the "outcome target." The Terms reference a target without quantifying it. The 18% figure is promoter-sourced and watchdog-reported and appears nowhere on miningrace.com. Equally unquantified: the "reduced speed" applied in Extended Status, the Sprint and Block Race prize amounts and odds, and whether Mining Credits genuinely expire after 90 days, which rests on a single affiliate source and was not found in the Terms text retrieved.
  • The Estonian Finantsinspektsioon warning as a primary document. It is recorded solely on a specialist watchdog blog’s reporting, which quotes the authority directly; the regulator’s own page was not retrieved. That is journalism describing a regulatory act, not the act itself, and anyone relying on it should re-verify against the regulator’s own warning list.
  • Whether the in-app wallet is genuinely non-custodial as claimed, and whether Mining Devices are ever physically delivered. Neither could be independently checked - the first would require testing the app with a funded account, and the Terms expressly disclaim any delivery guarantee on the second.
  • The legal relationship between Miningrid L.L.C., "Mining Grid", "Mining Race" and ICONX - which entity contracts with the participant, which holds the money and which pays the commissions. Never disclosed. Nor was any British Virgin Islands entity identified, despite the Privacy Policy citing BVI data-protection and anti-money-laundering law; nor was the current 2026 status of the Dubai license confirmed, the check reported being dated 28 August 2025; nor whether the ICONX marketing license was renewed after its reported May 2025 expiry.
  • Any financial information whatsoever, and the actual number of participants. No revenue, no user-funds figure, no reserves, no audited or unaudited accounts, and above all no disclosed split between mining revenue and new-participant inflow. 50,000+ Android installs is the only scale proxy, against a stated ambition of one million subscribers. Whether any authority has an unpublished open inquiry is by definition unknowable; none is published.

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QIs Mining Race free to try?
No, and three separate barriers make "free" impossible. First, you cannot register at all without an invite code from an existing participant - there is no open sign-up, which also means no ordinary retail customer can exist inside the structure. Second, the lowest paid tier is an annual "Spot" subscription, and the Spot produces no mining power on its own; the company’s own Terms confirm it "doesn’t include mining power — it only permits adding power through devices, cards, or Cores." The only free element is one bundled 1 TH/s Core, which generates roughly $11 of gross mining revenue over a year at the July 2026 hashprice. Third, the Terms make a linked device or card above 100 TH/s a precondition for withdrawing any referral commission - a $350–400 purchase. The realistic cost of meaningful participation in year one is about $450–500, and there is no ceiling: Platinum is $1,000 a year and a Diamond Spot supports more than $50,000 of cards.
QDoes Mining Race actually mine Bitcoin?
It could not be established, and that is the honest answer rather than a softened one. The company says it "connects with third-party pools" and names none. No aggregate hashrate figure, pool statistics page, wallet address, on-chain evidence, named data center, hosting partner, ASIC model list, energy contract, whitepaper or third-party audit could be found. To be fair on two points: the app does not claim your phone is mining - the products are framed as hashpower rental and hosted machines, which is more honest than much of this category - and payouts are made in real Bitcoin rather than a proprietary token. But from a participant’s seat the mined balance is a number in the operator’s database that cannot be independently verified, and the Terms hand the operator every lever that sets it: cards deliver "an average of" 100 TH/s, a card missing its target continues at an unquantified "reduced speed," and devices may be represented by "equivalent computing power" pending a delivery that is expressly not guaranteed.
QCan I get my money out of Mining Race?
The published rules are clear and restrictive; the practice is undocumented in either direction. Your own mining earnings are claimable at 0.002 BTC, roughly $124, with a 10% penalty on anything withdrawn below that. Referral commissions require 0.005 BTC, roughly $310, and additionally require your Spot to be linked to a device or card exceeding 100 TH/s - the "Green Spot" rule - or they are "withheld and inaccessible for withdrawal." Cards run about 120 days before earnings are practically claimable, and if auto-renew is left on your earnings are converted into a new card rather than becoming withdrawable. If the Spot expires, cards pause and Core Race rewards become unclaimable; after 180 days the Spot is deleted "causing loss of associated activities and balances." On evidence: nobody has published verifiable dated withdrawal proof at scale, the positive app-store reviews state no amount or date, the negative reports come from a claims-recovery firm with a commercial interest in finding claimants, and Trustpilot returned an access error. You would be taking the withdrawal function on trust.
QIs Mining Race legal, and has any regulator acted?
Two national regulators have published warnings and nobody has been charged with anything. Austria’s Financial Market Authority published a notice on 20 March 2026 under § 47 Abs. 12 AIFMG stating that the provider has no authorization to distribute Mining Race Cards in Austria and that those cards are to be classified as an Alternative Investment Fund within the meaning of the AIFMG - a competent national authority’s formal characterisation of the product as a collective investment distributed without a license. Estonia’s Finantsinspektsioon published a warning on 4 June 2026 concerning unregistered investment services, recorded here on a watchdog blog’s reporting because the regulator’s own page could not be retrieved. Both are warning notices, not enforcement. There has been no criminal charge, indictment, conviction, cease-and-desist order, consent order, fine, asset freeze or civil judgment anywhere. The company holds a valid Dubai trade license - for "IT, cloud and software services," which authorises neither mining nor financial services - and holds no VARA permit and no DFSA authorization. United States persons are contractually prohibited from participating.
QWhat is the single number that matters most?
$30.88 - the Bitcoin hashprice per petahash per day recorded by Hashrate Index on 13 July 2026. A Mining Card sells about 100 TH/s for about 120 days at roughly $375, and promoter material advertises a return of 18%, roughly $442. One hundred terahash across 120 days generates $370.56 gross at that hashprice, which is revenue before electricity, before hosting, before pool fees and before any operator margin. Then the company deducts a 10% mining fee and a 2% transaction fee, and the compensation plan consumes an estimated 27–33% of every dollar before any hashpower is bought - leaving perhaps $240–270 of purchasable hashrate grossing $225–250. The promised payout is larger than the maximum possible revenue of the thing being sold, and the shortfall can only be funded by new participant money. That is an analytical conclusion drawn from the company’s own product specification, its published fee schedule and a public market index; it is not a regulatory finding and no regulator has made it.
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