* Solo Mining Hardware *

Solo Lottery Miners

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

31 lottery miners listed

SHA-256 · Bitcoin

Scrypt · Litecoin

Odds against live difficulty ● updating

Live

One Block Is Worth

$253,153

Network Hashrate: 919.99 EH/s
Difficulty: 127.45 T
Block Reward: 3.1585 BTC
Algorithm: SHA-256

Your electricity rate 0.08 USD/kWh 26 miners

One Block Is Worth

$346

Network Hashrate: 2.64 PH/s
Difficulty: 88.39 M
Block Reward: 6.25 LTC
Algorithm: Scrypt

Merged mined at the same time: Dogecoin

Your electricity rate 0.08 USD/kWh 5 miners

That block value 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.

Every Solo Lottery Miner

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

Model	Hashrate	Power	Efficiency	Coin	Cost Per Year	Chance Per Year Chance
NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe Rev 3.1 SHA-256 · 12TH/s · 240W	12 TH/s	240W	20.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$168.19	1 in 1,446 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner BC08 SHA-256 · 12TH/s · 250W	12 TH/s	250W	20.83 J/TH	SHA-256	$175.20	1 in 1,446 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe SHA-256 · 9.6TH/s · 160W	9.6 TH/s	160W	16.67 J/TH	SHA-256	$112.13	1 in 1,807 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQX SHA-256 · 8TH/s · 170W	8 TH/s	170W	21.25 J/TH	SHA-256	$119.14	1 in 2,169 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner Thor P2 SHA-256 · 6.8TH/s · 155W	6.8 TH/s	155W	22.79 J/TH	SHA-256	$108.62	1 in 2,551 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe++ Rev 6.1 SHA-256 · 6TH/s · 103W	6 TH/s	103W	17.17 J/TH	SHA-256	$72.18	1 in 2,892 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe++ Hydro Rev 6.1 SHA-256 · 6TH/s · 103W	6 TH/s	103W	17.17 J/TH	SHA-256	$72.18	1 in 2,892 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe++ SHA-256 · 4.8TH/s · 72W	4.8 TH/s	72W	15.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$50.46	1 in 3,614 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe++ Hydro SHA-256 · 4.8TH/s · 76W	4.8 TH/s	76W	15.83 J/TH	SHA-256	$53.26	1 in 3,614 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner BC04 SHA-256 · 4.8TH/s · 240W	4.8 TH/s	240W	50.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$168.19	1 in 3,614 Block worth $253,153
LuckyMiner Miner LV08 SHA-256 · 4.5TH/s · 120W	4.5 TH/s	120W	26.67 J/TH	SHA-256	$84.10	1 in 3,855 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Supra Hex 701 SHA-256 · 4.2TH/s · 90W	4.2 TH/s	90W	21.43 J/TH	SHA-256	$63.07	1 in 4,131 Block worth $253,153
Canaan Avalon Nano 3 SHA-256 · 4TH/s · 140W	4 TH/s	140W	35.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$98.11	1 in 4,337 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe+ Hyd SHA-256 · 2.5TH/s · 60W	2.5 TH/s	60W	24.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$42.05	1 in 6,939 Block worth $253,153
NerdMiner NerdQaxe+ SHA-256 · 2.5TH/s · 50W	2.5 TH/s	50W	20.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$35.04	1 in 6,939 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Gamma Turbo SHA-256 · 2.4TH/s · 35W	2.4 TH/s	35W	14.58 J/TH	SHA-256	$24.53	1 in 7,228 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner Thor X1 SHA-256 · 2.1TH/s · 46W	2.1 TH/s	46W	21.90 J/TH	SHA-256	$32.24	1 in 8,261 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Gamma Duo 650 SHA-256 · 1.63TH/s · 26W	1.63 TH/s	26W	15.95 J/TH	SHA-256	$18.22	1 in 10,642 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Touch SHA-256 · 1.6TH/s · 22W	1.6 TH/s	22W	13.75 J/TH	SHA-256	$15.42	1 in 10,842 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner BC01 SHA-256 · 1.5TH/s · 23W	1.5 TH/s	23W	15.33 J/TH	SHA-256	$16.12	1 in 11,565 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Gamma 602 SHA-256 · 1.3TH/s · 15W	1.3 TH/s	15W	11.54 J/TH	SHA-256	$10.51	1 in 13,344 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Gamma 601 SHA-256 · 1.2TH/s · 17W	1.2 TH/s	17W	14.17 J/TH	SHA-256	$11.91	1 in 14,456 Block worth $253,153
LuckyMiner LV07 1TH/s SHA-256 · 1TH/s · 25W	1 TH/s	25W	25.00 J/TH	SHA-256	$17.52	1 in 17,347 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Supra 401 SHA-256 · 600GH/s · 14W	600 GH/s	14W	0.02 J/GH	SHA-256	$9.81	1 in 28,911 Block worth $253,153
Bitaxe Ultra 1366 SHA-256 · 425GH/s · 11W	425 GH/s	11W	0.03 J/GH	SHA-256	$7.71	1 in 40,815 Block worth $253,153
Nerdminer V3 SHA-256 · 1MH/s · 1W	1 MH/s	1W	1.00 J/MH	SHA-256	$0.70	1 in 17,346,322,254 Block worth $253,153
HammerMiner DC08 Scrypt · 440MH/s · 120W	440 MH/s	120W	0.27 J/MH	Scrypt	$84.10	3.59% Block worth $346
HammerMiner DC06 Scrypt · 330MH/s · 120W	330 MH/s	120W	0.36 J/MH	Scrypt	$84.10	2.71% Block worth $346
HammerMiner DC04 Scrypt · 230MH/s · 60W	230 MH/s	60W	0.26 J/MH	Scrypt	$42.05	1.89% Block worth $346
HammerMiner DC02 Scrypt · 120MH/s · 30W	120 MH/s	30W	0.25 J/MH	Scrypt	$21.02	1 in 101 Block worth $346
PlebSource Hammer Miner Scrypt Scrypt · 105MH/s · 25W	105 MH/s	25W	0.24 J/MH	Scrypt	$17.52	1 in 115 Block worth $346

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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.

Best Lottery Miners Right Now

Bitcoin · SHA-256

Highest Hashrate

NerdMiner NerdOCTAxe Rev 3.1

Most lottery tickets per second

12TH/s

Best Efficiency

Bitaxe Supra 401

Most hashrate per watt burned

0.02 J/GH

Lowest Power Draw

Nerdminer V3

Cheapest ticket to leave running

Litecoin · Scrypt

Highest Hashrate

HammerMiner DC08

Most lottery tickets per second

440MH/s

Best Efficiency

PlebSource Hammer Miner Scrypt

Most hashrate per watt burned

0.24 J/MH

Lowest Power Draw

PlebSource Hammer Miner Scrypt

Cheapest ticket to leave running

25W

* Solo Mining 101

What Is Solo Lottery Mining?

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

Solo mining means pointing your hardware at a proof-of-work 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. It works the same way on every mineable coin — Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Kaspa, Monero — because the mechanism is proof of work itself, not any one chain.

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 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 every block, 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 Coins

Bitcoin, Scrypt — and Everything Else

Two networks dominate the lottery miner market. The maths works on every proof-of-work coin.

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SHA-256

Bitcoin solo mining

The original lottery. Bitaxe, NerdMiner, LuckyMiner and the Hammer Miner BC series all hash SHA-256 against the largest, most secure proof-of-work network on earth. The odds per machine are the longest of any coin — but a single block is worth more than most people earn in a year, and it lands in your own wallet with nobody in between.

Bitcoin mining calculator →

Scrypt

Scrypt solo mining: Litecoin and Dogecoin

The newer lottery, and the one with shorter odds. Scrypt lottery miners like the Hammer Miner DC series hunt Litecoin blocks, and because Dogecoin is merged-mined on the same work, every block found pays both coins. The Litecoin network is a fraction of Bitcoin's size, blocks arrive every two and a half minutes, and the same hardware budget buys a far bigger slice of the draw.

Litecoin mining calculator → Dogecoin mining calculator →

Any proof-of-work coin can be solo mined

Bitcoin and Scrypt get the special mention because that is where dedicated lottery hardware exists today. But the mechanism is not tied to either. Point any miner at any proof-of-work network on your own account — a Kaspa ASIC, a Zcash rig, a CPU on Monero — and you are solo mining it. The odds formula is identical: your hashrate divided by the network hashrate, against that coin's live difficulty. Only the numbers change, and every coin page on this site shows them.

Browse every mineable coin →

* The Maths

How the Odds Actually Work

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

Proof-of-work mining is a guessing game with a target. Every miner on the network is generating hashes and checking whether the result falls below a threshold set by the current 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 Bitcoin runs at 900 EH/s and your machine produces 1 TH/s, you hold roughly one billionth of the tickets in every draw. If Litecoin runs at 2.8 PH/s and your Scrypt miner produces 440 MH/s, you hold about one six-millionth — and the draw happens four times as often. Long odds either way, 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

The chain 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 network retunes its difficulty so blocks keep landing on schedule. 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 mining was dead for a decade. Open hardware brought it back.

For most of the last decade, home 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 networks 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. Scrypt boards followed and brought Litecoin and Dogecoin into the same category. None of them will probably ever find a block. But they give their 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 for your coin

Any of the machines listed above — SHA-256 boards for Bitcoin, Scrypt boards for Litecoin and Dogecoin. 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 wallet 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 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 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 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 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.

Pick the coin first

The algorithm decides the network you compete in. Bitcoin offers the biggest prize and the longest odds; Scrypt offers smaller, more frequent wins paid in two coins. Decide which draw you want to be in before you compare boards, because a SHA-256 miner and a Scrypt miner are not substitutes for each other.

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.

* 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 the network harder to capture the entire time it runs.

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Solo Lottery Mining FAQ

Everything you need to know about solo mining odds

Solo lottery mining is mining a proof-of-work coin on your own with a small, low-power miner in the hope of solving a full block yourself. 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.

Any proof-of-work coin, as long as you have hardware for its algorithm. Bitcoin on SHA-256 is where the category started, with Bitaxe, NerdMiner and LuckyMiner boards. Scrypt lottery miners target Litecoin, and because Dogecoin is merged-mined on the same work, a Scrypt block hunt covers both chains at once. Kaspa, Zcash, Monero and every other mineable coin can be solo mined too — the maths on this page applies to all of them, only the network numbers change.

In a pool, thousands of miners combine hashrate and split every block proportionally, so you receive small, steady payouts. Solo, 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 for the algorithm of the coin you want, a wallet 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 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 Bitcoin 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.

Because the Litecoin network is far smaller than Bitcoin, so the same hardware budget buys a much larger slice of it. A block is worth less in fiat terms, but it arrives every two and a half minutes instead of every ten, and Dogecoin is paid on top through merged mining. The trade is more frequent, smaller wins versus rarer, larger ones — the table on this page shows both against the live networks.

Your share of the network hashrate is your share of every block draw. Divide your miner hashrate by the total network hashrate of the coin 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 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. Most chains require the coinbase output to mature for a number of blocks before it can be spent — on Bitcoin that is 100 blocks, roughly 16 hours.

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 the coin 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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