Solo Mining Hardware

Bitcoin Lottery Miners

Every Bitcoin lottery miner in one place. Bitaxe, NerdMiner and LuckyMiner hardware built for Bitcoin solo mining: compare real hashrate, efficiency and running cost, and see your actual odds of solo mining a full Bitcoin block against the live network.

Network Hashrate

947.27 EH/s

Difficulty

127.48 T

Block Reward

3.125 BTC

One Block Is Worth

$201,953

That last number is the whole point. A lottery miner earns nothing on an average day — but a single solved block pays the full reward, straight to your address, with no pool taking a cut.

Best Lottery Miners Right Now

Highest Hashrate

NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe Rev 3.1 (12TH)

Most lottery tickets per second

12TH/s

Best Efficiency

Bitaxe Supra 401 (600GH)

Most hashrate per watt burned

0.02 J/GH

Lowest Power Draw

Nerdminer V3

Cheapest ticket to leave running

Every Bitcoin Lottery Miner

Solo mining odds calculated against live network difficulty. Running cost at your electricity rate of $0.080/kWh.

Miner	Hashrate	Power	Efficiency	Chance Per Year	Cost Per Year
Lucky Miner LV07 1TH/s	1TH/s	25W	25.00 J/TH	1 in 17,351	$17.52
Canaan Avalon Nano 3 Lucky Solo Miner 4 TH/s	4TH/s	140W	35.00 J/TH	1 in 4,338	$98.11
Bitaxe Gamma 601 (1.2TH)	1.2TH/s	17W	14.17 J/TH	1 in 14,459	$11.91
NerdMiner NerdQaxe++ (4.8TH)	4.8TH/s	72W	15.00 J/TH	1 in 3,615	$50.46
NerdMiner NerdQaxe+ Hyd (2.5TH)	2.5TH/s	60W	24.00 J/TH	1 in 6,941	$42.05
Bitaxe Supra Hex 701 (4.2TH)	4.2TH/s	90W	21.43 J/TH	1 in 4,132	$63.07
Bitaxe Touch (1.6TH)	1.6TH/s	22W	13.75 J/TH	1 in 10,844	$15.42
Lucky Miner LV08 (4.5TH)	4.5TH/s	120W	26.67 J/TH	1 in 3,856	$84.10
Nerdminer V3	1MH/s	1W	1.00 J/MH	1 in 17,350,265,063	$0.70
Bitaxe Supra 401 (600GH)	600GH/s	14W	0.02 J/GH	1 in 28,918	$9.81
Bitaxe Ultra 1366 (425GH)	425GH/s	11W	0.03 J/GH	1 in 40,825	$7.71
Bitaxe Gamma Duo 650 (1.63TH)	1.63TH/s	26W	15.95 J/TH	1 in 10,645	$18.22
Bitaxe Gamma Turbo (2.4TH)	2.4TH/s	35W	14.58 J/TH	1 in 7,230	$24.53
Bitaxe Gamma 602 (1.3TH)	1.3TH/s	15W	11.54 J/TH	1 in 13,347	$10.51
NerdMiner NerdQaxe Plus Plus Hydro (4.8TH)	4.8TH/s	76W	15.83 J/TH	1 in 3,615	$53.26
NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe (9.6TH)	9.6TH/s	160W	16.67 J/TH	1 in 1,808	$112.13
NerdMiner NerdQaxe Plus Plus Rev 6.1 (6TH)	6TH/s	103W	17.17 J/TH	1 in 2,892	$72.18
NerdMiner NerdQaxe Plus Plus Hydro Rev 6.1 (6TH)	6TH/s	103W	17.17 J/TH	1 in 2,892	$72.18
NerdMiner NerdQaxe Plus (2.5TH)	2.5TH/s	50W	20.00 J/TH	1 in 6,941	$35.04
NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe Rev 3.1 (12TH)	12TH/s	240W	20.00 J/TH	1 in 1,446	$168.19

There is no daily profit column here on purpose. A lottery miner has an expected yield of effectively zero — the only honest numbers are what it costs you to run and what your odds are. If you want raw profitability maths for production hardware, use the ASIC miner profit calculator.

* Solo Mining 101

What Is Bitcoin Solo Mining?

No pool fee, no proportional split — and no guaranteed payout either.

Bitcoin solo mining means pointing your hardware at the network on your own account instead of joining a pool. You build your own block template, you hash it yourself, and if you solve it the entire block reward is yours. No pool fee, no proportional split, no minimum payout threshold.

The trade-off is brutal and simple. With a pool you earn a little every day. Solo, you earn nothing at all until the day you win everything. This is why the community calls it Bitcoin lottery mining or lucky mining: the machine is not an investment that pays back on a schedule, it is a ticket printer. Every hash it computes is one more entry in a draw that happens roughly every ten minutes, forever.

Pool mining

Small payouts, almost every day
Your reward is proportional to the hashrate you contributed
The pool takes a fee and decides which transactions go in the block
Predictable, low variance, effectively an income stream

Solo mining

Nothing, then nothing, then possibly everything
A win pays the entire block subsidy plus every fee in the block
On your own node, you choose the transactions yourself
Maximum variance, and the only way to win a whole block

* The Maths

How the Odds Actually Work

Your share of the network hashrate is your share of every block draw.

Bitcoin mining is a guessing game with a target. Every miner on earth is generating hashes and checking whether the result falls below a threshold set by the current network difficulty. There is no skill, no progress bar, and no partial credit. A hash either wins or it does not, and then you throw it away and try the next one.

This gives lottery mining a property that surprises most people: your chance of winning any given block is simply your hashrate divided by the total network hashrate. That is the whole formula. If the network runs at 900 EH/s and your machine produces 1 TH/s, you hold roughly one billionth of the tickets in every draw. Long odds — but real, calculable, and identical in kind to the odds an industrial farm holds.

Every hash is equal

The network cannot tell whether a winning hash came from a container farm or a board on your desk. There are no better tickets, only more of them.

Every attempt is independent

Bitcoin has no memory. Years of hashing do not make you due. The block could be solved on your first day, because the first day and the ten-thousandth are statistically identical.

Difficulty sets the bar, not your luck

Every fortnight the network retunes difficulty so blocks keep landing ten minutes apart. Your odds move with that number, which is why the chances in the table are recalculated against live data rather than published once and left to rot.

* The Comeback

Why Lottery Mining Exploded

Home Bitcoin mining was dead for a decade. Open hardware brought it back.

For most of the last decade, home Bitcoin mining was dead. Industrial farms with megawatt substations and container-scale cooling made the economics impossible, and the hardware itself became hostile. A modern production ASIC is a three-kilowatt jet engine that nobody can live next to. Ordinary people were priced and noised out of the network they were supposedly part of.

Open-source lottery miners reversed that. A Bitaxe or NerdMiner costs less than a phone, draws a handful of watts, sits silently on a desk, and plugs into a normal socket. It will almost certainly never find a block. But it gives its owner something an exchange account never can: a real, non-custodial, statistically genuine shot at a full block reward, and one more independent hasher validating the network.

There is a cultural half to this too. These machines are open hardware — schematics, firmware and bill of materials in public, forked and improved by the people who mine on what they built. Owning one is closer to owning a ham radio than owning a share of a mining fund. That combination of low cost, zero noise, open design and lottery upside is exactly why the category went from curiosity to movement.

* Getting Started

What You Need to Start Solo Mining

If you can set up a wireless printer, you can set up a lottery miner.

A lottery miner

Any of the machines listed above. Higher hashrate means more tickets per second, but every one of them is a valid entry into every draw. Buy on running cost and noise as much as on raw hashrate.

A Bitcoin address

The reward is paid directly to it. Use a wallet whose keys you control — the entire point of solo mining is that nobody stands between you and the coinbase output.

A solo mining endpoint

Either a public solo pool, which builds block templates for you and pays the finder in full, or your own Bitcoin full node running a solo stratum server. Both work. Only one of them is sovereign.

Power and patience

The cost per year in the table above is what you will actually spend. Treat it as the price of the ticket rather than as an operating loss, and the whole exercise stops looking irrational.

* Going Sovereign

Solo Mining on Your Own Node

A pool-hosted ticket versus a genuine vote in Bitcoin consensus.

Most people start on a public solo pool, and that is a perfectly good place to start. The pool assembles the block template, your miner hashes it, and if you win, the pool pays you the full reward minus a small fee. Simple, and it works out of the box.

But running your own Bitcoin full node with a solo stratum server is the version that actually matters. A solo miner on its own templates decides which transactions go into the block it is trying to solve. That is not a rounding error in decentralisation terms — it is the difference between renting your hashpower to someone else and being a full participant in Bitcoin consensus.

The honest framing: a lottery miner on a public pool is a ticket. A lottery miner on your own node is a vote. The hardware cost is identical; only the setup effort differs, and that is why the node route is worth the weekend it takes.

* Buying Guide

How to Choose a Lottery Miner

You are not optimising payback here — you are optimising tickets per watt.

Hashrate is tickets

Doubling your hashrate exactly doubles your odds. Nothing else on the spec sheet moves the probability, which makes this the only number with a direct line to your chance of winning.

Efficiency is the ticket price

Efficiency decides how much electricity each ticket costs you. Two machines with the same hashrate and different efficiency give identical odds at different annual prices — and since the odds are the only upside, the cheaper one strictly wins.

Noise and heat decide whether it stays plugged in

A lottery miner only wins if it is running. The machine that lives quietly on a shelf for five years buys more tickets than the faster one you unplugged in week three because of the fan.

Open firmware is not a detail

Open hardware and firmware mean you can point the miner at your own node, tune it, repair it and audit exactly what it is hashing. On a machine whose entire purpose is self-custody of your own hashpower, a closed black box defeats the point.

* The Honest Part

Realistic Expectations

Judge a lottery miner the way you would judge a lottery ticket, not a business.

You will almost certainly not find a block. That sentence belongs on this page, because a site that hides it is selling something. The overwhelmingly likely outcome of buying a lottery miner is that you pay a small electricity bill for years and win nothing at all.

And yet solo blocks keep getting found by single low-power units. It happens because the maths permits it, not because those owners did anything clever. Each of them held the same long odds as everyone else and the draw went their way. That is the deal, stated plainly, and most owners find it a perfectly good deal once nobody is pretending otherwise.

So judge a lottery miner the way you would judge a lottery ticket, not a business. What does it cost to keep running, how many tickets per second does it buy, and what does a win pay? Those are the three numbers on this page — and unlike an actual lottery, the machine you bought is also quietly making Bitcoin harder to capture the entire time it runs.

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* Answers BTC

Bitcoin Lottery Mining FAQ

Everything you need to know about solo Bitcoin mining odds

Bitcoin lottery mining is solo mining with a small, low-power miner in the hope of hitting a full block on your own. You point the machine at a solo pool or your own node, and every hash it produces is a ticket in the next block draw. If one of those hashes solves the block, you keep the entire block reward instead of a fractional pool payout. The odds per machine are long, which is exactly why it is called lottery mining or lucky mining.

In a pool, thousands of miners combine hashrate and split every block proportionally, so you receive small, steady payouts. In Bitcoin solo mining you are competing alone: almost every day pays nothing, but a single hit pays the full block reward plus fees. Pool mining is income. Solo mining is variance.

Three things: a lottery miner such as a Bitaxe, NerdMiner or LuckyMiner, a Bitcoin address to receive the reward, and a solo mining endpoint. Most people use a public solo pool, which handles block templates and pays the winner directly. Running your own Bitcoin full node with a solo stratum server is the fully sovereign option, and it is what makes solo mining a genuine decentralisation contribution rather than just a bet.

Yes. Every hash has exactly the same chance of solving the block, regardless of which machine produced it. A small miner does not get worse tickets, it just gets fewer of them. Solo blocks have been found by single Bitaxe units, which is why the category exists at all. The odds are long, not zero.

Not in the way an ASIC farm is. Expected daily earnings from a lottery miner are effectively zero, and you pay electricity every day regardless. People do not buy them for yield. They buy them for the block lottery ticket, for the ability to run a full node and mine on their own templates, and because they are quiet enough to sit on a desk. Judge them on running cost and odds, not on daily profit.

Industrial mining pushed hobbyists out of Bitcoin years ago: a modern S21 is loud, hot and impossible to run in an apartment. Lottery miners brought home mining back. They are open source, silent, run on a few watts, cost a fraction of a full ASIC, and they hand ordinary people a real, non-custodial shot at a full block reward while adding another independent hasher to the network.

Your share of the network hashrate is your share of every block draw. Divide your miner hashrate by the total Bitcoin network hashrate and you have the probability of winning any given block. The table on this page runs that calculation for every lottery miner listed, against live network difficulty, and expresses it as your chance over a full year of continuous running.

No, but it is the better version. A public solo pool gives you block templates and pays the finder the full reward, minus a small fee, and it works out of the box. Running your own full node with a solo stratum server means you build your own block templates, choose your own transactions, and answer to nobody. That is what turns a lottery ticket into an actual contribution to Bitcoin consensus.

The block is broadcast to the network, and once it is accepted the coinbase output pays the full block subsidy plus every transaction fee in that block. On a solo pool this goes to the address you configured, minus the pool fee. On your own node it goes wherever your template said. The coinbase output matures after 100 blocks, roughly 16 hours, before it can be spent.

Your cumulative chance goes up, because you buy more tickets — but you never become due. Each hash is an independent trial with identical odds, so the network has no memory of the years you already spent. Ten years of hashing does not make the next block more likely than the first day. It just means you entered ten years of draws instead of one.

Most sit between a few watts and a few dozen watts — the same ballpark as a laptop charger, and a rounding error next to the three kilowatts a production ASIC pulls. The cost per year column in the table above calculates the exact figure at your configured electricity rate. That number is the real price of the ticket.

If your only goal is exposure to the price, buying Bitcoin is strictly more efficient and nobody serious would argue otherwise. A lottery miner is for people who want something buying cannot give them: participation in consensus, a machine that validates and hashes under their own roof, and a real shot at a block that was never for sale. Those are the reasons that hold up. Expected return is not one of them.

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