Posted: 10/24/2025 1:28:57 PM EDT
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Had a question. I've seen these little desktop bit coin miners on FB. Was wondering if anyone had any worthwhile information on the devices. TIA |
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| No personal experience whatsoever. I did watch a YouTube video about them. Guy was tickled to have it, but his admiration was not financially based. He apparently got lucky, but knew it was luck. I am not interested, but if that is what someone wants to do, go ahead. |
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For what purpose? To make money mining you need to burn a lot of electricity. Mining for profit is done in areas where low cost power is available. The cost/payoff ratio is simple to determine, just lookup the hashrate of the miner you are looking at. You're not going to make money mining on your own unless you have a source of very low cost electricity. If you want your own node why not just run the software on a PC? |
| Not really interested in mining for money, just thought it might be a neat little gadget to run, and I might get lucky. |
Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985. My Avatar, my sweet princess girly girl Maggie. Got a nice 15 years with her, miss her a lot.
| What is the best company to open/create a Bitcoin wallet? |
Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985. My Avatar, my sweet princess girly girl Maggie. Got a nice 15 years with her, miss her a lot.
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Originally Posted By -Omega-1: Not really interested in mining for money, just thought it might be a neat little gadget to run, and I might get lucky. I asked my good friend Grok, “What are the pros and cons of desktop Bitcoin miners available on E-Bay”. Got a pretty detailed answer, with evaluations of competing models. Might try that, some good information there. I noticed Grok referred to “lottery” operators. I think this well describes your likelihood of actually making a profit. At least it will help to warm your house in winter. |
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Related article on lottery mining: https://www.ccn.com/education/crypto/7-solo-bitcoin-miners-block-reward-explained/ Kind of a neat idea. |
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First, learn how to spell it. It's Bitcoin. Not Bit Coin. There are small miners, but you will make nothing on it more than likely. It's super rare for block solved on one. It the BitAxe, I run one at home. These small miners are for the security/decentralization of the infrastructure To make money, you need a lower KW/hr, and an ASIC miner. I started in 2012 and have mined on everything. I think you're talking about this? I have the Bitaxe Gamma 601 - https://www.bitaxe.direct/ Wallet for phone is Cake Wallet, for Desktop you can use Bitcoin core. https://cakelabs.com/ https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ |
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Originally Posted By -Omega-1: What is the best company to open/create a Bitcoin wallet? You can download the software and make as many wallets as you want. Where you get your Bitcoin from is a separate issue. |
| Tell that to the guys that are using the waste power from a nuclear power plant to mine BTC in a facility that covers several hundred acres. |
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| As for a wallet, will any old USB stick work or do I want a specific dongle? |
Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985. My Avatar, my sweet princess girly girl Maggie. Got a nice 15 years with her, miss her a lot.
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Originally Posted By -Omega-1: As for a wallet, will any old USB stick work or do I want a specific dongle? The software you use to send/receive Bitcoin will dictate what, if any, hardware is required. |
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A little desktop miner has peaked my interest too. I like the idea of it called a "Lottery" miner. I have spent a lot of money in my life on lottery tickets and haven't won enough to break even, so I thought maybe one or two of these sitting on my desk would be kind of cool One time fee of buying them and let them do the work! Also trying out a bitcoin purchase. I bought 180 DOGE Coin at $.15 a coin! Let's see what it does Cost me $30. |
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Originally Posted By BlueMax76: A little desktop miner has peaked my interest too. I like the idea of it called a "Lottery" miner. I have spent a lot of money in my life on lottery tickets and haven't won enough to break even, so I thought maybe one or two of these sitting on my desk would be kind of cool One time fee of buying them and let them do the work! Also trying out a bitcoin purchase. I bought 180 DOGE Coin at $.15 a coin! Let's see what it does Cost me $30. Okay, update. I bought 2 of those little miners, with the intent of eventually buying 10 of them. My concerns at the time were how to display them. I browsed the interwebs for a bit and stumbled on a little tower on eBay. Was a little pricey for what it was, but the guy put in the work, made it, added a few features and was selling it. So I bought one. Then I bought 3 more miners and they arrived today. I got them configured and constructed my tower. Sorry for the crappy pic.  Here is a screenshot of the page to manage them.  Here is the public-pool page. 
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Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985. My Avatar, my sweet princess girly girl Maggie. Got a nice 15 years with her, miss her a lot.
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Originally Posted By -Omega-1:….and I might get lucky. So your chance of solving a block is one in 5x10^15 since you have five miners. The odds of winning the power ball are one in 292x10^6. That means you are roughly ten million times more likely to win the powerball with a single ticket than successfully mining a block. |
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Originally Posted By Morgan321: Your pic shows that your miners mine at one mega hash. To put that into perspective, you’re mining at 10^6 while the bitcoin network is currently mining at more than 10^21. So your chance of solving a block is one in 5x10^15 since you have five miners. The odds of winning the power ball are one in 292x10^6. That means you are roughly ten million times more likely to win the powerball with a single ticket than successfully mining a block. Originally Posted By Morgan321: Originally Posted By -Omega-1:….and I might get lucky. So your chance of solving a block is one in 5x10^15 since you have five miners. The odds of winning the power ball are one in 292x10^6. That means you are roughly ten million times more likely to win the powerball with a single ticket than successfully mining a block. 
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Well, I took the next step and decided to run my own Bitcoin node. I used a GMKtec, G3 Plus. Bought a barebones kit and added a 2TB SSD and 32GB of ram. https://www.gmktec.com/products/nucbox-g3-plus-enhanced-performance-mini-pc-with-intel-n150-processor?variant=a5d428a7-bd62-4548-be91-9be27fae6062 Only took about 14 hours to sync. Has been running for 24 hours now. Next step is a BItaxe or 2, then maybe an ASIC miner of some sort. |
Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985. My Avatar, my sweet princess girly girl Maggie. Got a nice 15 years with her, miss her a lot.
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