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View submission: Any solo miners use one of these?
You may know a bitmain [1]board is dozens of chips ( BM1368 ASIC ) all working together as one big system. Bitaxe is an open source project that takes those chips out and places single ones into it for home low power use. It's a neat way to continue using the chips when the whole bitmain board is no longer useful for the big miners.
It worth depends on your view point, ever buy a scratch ticket? Because, running a bitaxe solo has better odds of mining a block then that scratch ticket has of winning the big prize.
One purchase has you automatically "scratching a bitcoin ticket" every 10 minutes.
Comment by Sneaksketch at 01/02/2025 at 17:14 UTC
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Good way of looking at it guess
Was just scrolling away and went down a rabbit hole of mining and stumbled across these. Just looks a bit of a neat thing to do and have, and reasonably priced
Comment by eupherein at 01/02/2025 at 21:30 UTC
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Way too expensive to justify the very little TH they put out. They should be less than 100 usd to actually compete with actual solo miners like the 4th avalon nano 3