The BitAxe craze has sparked a whole new generation of pleb mining.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nolan and Donny join us to talk about the BitAxe pleb mining revolution, home mining setups, BitAxe device modifications, the lottery aspect of solo mining, heating applications, and why these small miners are becoming the best educational tool for understanding Bitcoin mining from the ground up.

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**Notes:**

• Gamma miners run at 1.2 TH/s using 15-20W

• Nerd QX++ delivers 4.8 TH/s stock performance

• BitAxe costs under $100 per terahash

• One in 260 million daily block chance

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:07 Nolan background

05:35 BX Gamma miner

07:10 Donny background

11:15 Typical pleb miners

19:26 Reasons for mining

23:06 Cleanspark

23:35 Heating Texas apartment

28:09 Personal mining setups

29:28 NerdQ Axe ++ (modification)

45:41 Hardware talk

55:35 Efficiency improvements

57:27 Parasite Pool

1:00:51 Wrap up

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