Your Guide to Solo Mining
Solo mining Bitcoin from your desk is no longer a fantasy. Over the past year, home miners running small, open-source ASIC devices have found more than 22 full Bitcoin blocks on Solo CKPool alone — each one worth north of $200,000. The hardware has matured. The community has grown. And the odds, while steep, are … Read more
You don’t need a warehouse full of machines or an engineering degree to mine Bitcoin. A new generation of small, quiet, affordable solo miners lets anyone participate in Bitcoin mining from their desk, bookshelf, or nightstand. Plug it in, connect to WiFi, enter your Bitcoin address, and you’re mining. Will you get rich? Probably not. … Read more
The Bitaxe Gamma 602 and NerdQaxe++ Rev 6.1 are the two most popular open-source solo Bitcoin miners you can get right now. Both run AxeOS, both use Bitmain’s BM1370 chip, and both let you take a shot at finding a Bitcoin block on your own. But they serve very different budgets and expectations. This comparison … Read more
The Bitaxe Gamma 602 and Lucky Miner LV08 both sit in the sub-$150 solo mining category. Small, quiet, WiFi-connected Bitcoin miners aimed at people who want a shot at finding a block without spending a fortune. But beneath those similar price tags, these are fundamentally different products. One is backed by an open-source community, transparent … Read more