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Crypto Mining News & Guides
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Hardware reviews, solo lottery miners, buying guides, comparisons and mining news — written by the team that runs the calculator, with the numbers taken from the same live data the tables use.
Is Solo Mining Worth It? The Honest Bitcoin Odds in 2026
What solo mining Bitcoin really costs, how long a block takes at different hashrates, how it compares with a pool, and who should and should not buy a lottery miner.
A calculator that shows its work
MinerCompare calculates mining profit from live network and price data at your own electricity rate, so every article on this blog can point to numbers you can check yourself.
Live calculators
The ASIC, GPU and coin calculators run on current network and price data.
Odds, not promises
Solo lottery miners are rated by their block odds instead of a profit figure.
Written by the team
Every article is written by the MinerCompare team and is available in ten languages.
Solo Mining Litecoin and Dogecoin at Home: Merged Mining Without the Difficulty Problems
How merged solo mining of Litecoin and Dogecoin works, why a pool with a high minimum difficulty keeps disconnecting a 100 MH/s home miner, which primary and secondary solo pools fit it, and the exact stratum settings.
Solo Mining Bitcoin With a Bitaxe: Low-Difficulty Pools, Primary and Backup Settings
Why share difficulty decides whether a Bitaxe or another sub-terahash home miner shows up on a solo pool at all, how Solo CKPool and AtlasPool compare, and the exact primary and secondary pool settings for a lottery miner.
Solo Lottery Mining Beyond Bitcoin: BTC, BCH and LTC + DOGE Dual Solo Mining Setup Guide
One SHA-256 desk miner can play the Bitcoin or the Bitcoin Cash lottery, and one Scrypt miner plays Litecoin and Dogecoin at the same time from the same hashes. What that means for your odds and your prize, which pools to use, and the step-by-step setup from wallet address to first accepted share.
What you will find in our articles
Each topic below links to the matching calculator or directory, so you can go from reading about a machine to checking its numbers in one click.
Step-by-step explainers on pools, firmware, electricity, cooling and wallets.
Hardware reviewsOne machine in depth: real power draw, noise, specifications and who it suits.
Solo lottery miningHow small miners chase a whole block, with the daily, monthly and yearly odds.
Pools and payoutsHow pools split rewards, what they charge and when they pay out.
Profit mathsHashrate, difficulty, power and price explained, so you can read any result yourself.
ComparisonsMachines and generations side by side, using the same live data as the tables.
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Bitcoin Home Mining in 2026: How Solo Lottery Miners Work and Which One to Buy
Bitaxe, NerdQaxe, NerdQX and HammerMiner turned Bitcoin solo mining into a desk-sized hobby. Here is how the block lottery really works, what the odds look like at each hashrate tier, and how to pick the right machine for your room and your electricity rate.
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