The Bitaxe Authority

What is Bitaxe?

Bitaxe is the world’s first fully open-source Bitcoin ASIC miner. It takes the same SHA-256 chips found inside industrial mining machines — the BM1366, BM1397, BM1370 — and puts them on a tiny, single-board device that anyone can run from home. No noise. No industrial power. No permission needed.

Created by skot9000 and the open-source hardware community, Bitaxe represents something radical: the democratization of Bitcoin mining hardware. Every schematic, every PCB layout, every line of firmware is public. Anyone can audit it, build it, modify it, improve it. This is what cypherpunks meant when they said “don’t trust, verify.”

Bitaxe runs solo mining by default. That means you are not sharing rewards with a pool — you are pointing your hash rate directly at the Bitcoin network, searching for a block on your own. When you find one, the entire block reward (currently 3.125 BTC) goes straight to your wallet. No middlemen. No pool fees. Just you, your miner, and the SHA-256 grind.

Is it likely you’ll find a block? Statistically, the odds are long. But solo miners have found blocks with Bitaxes. Your Bitaxe never stops. It hashes 24/7, every second another chance, running on less power than a light bulb. That is sovereignty in silicon.

$ cat /proc/bitaxe/info

DEVICE: Bitaxe Open-Source Miner
TYPE: Solo Bitcoin ASIC Miner
CHIPS: Bitmain BM1366 / BM1397 / BM1370
HASHRATE: 400 GH/s - 3 TH/s
POWER: 12W - 72W
NOISE: Near silent (single fan)
CONNECTION: WiFi (2.4 GHz)
FIRMWARE: AxeOS (open-source)
LICENSE: Fully open-source hardware

$ uptime
 365 days, 0:00:00 up, solo mining

$ echo $PHILOSOPHY
"Running Bitcoin." - Hal Finney

Bitaxe connects to your WiFi, points at a solo mining pool, and starts hashing. No special wiring. No 240V. No noise complaints from the neighbours. Just plug it in and start running Bitcoin.

D-Central and Bitaxe: From Day One

D-Central didn’t jump on the Bitaxe bandwagon. We helped build it. When the first Bitaxe prototypes were circulating in the open-source mining community, we were already there — testing, building, and figuring out how to make these little miners better.

We created the original Bitaxe Mesh Stand — the first purpose-built mounting solution for the Bitaxe. Designed and manufactured right here in Canada, our stand gives your Bitaxe proper airflow and a clean, stable mount. It became the go-to accessory in the community because we understood what miners needed before anyone else was making accessories.

Then we developed custom heatsinks engineered specifically for Bitaxe ASIC chips. Better thermal performance means higher sustained hash rates, longer chip life, and the ability to push overclocks further without throttling. Our heatsinks aren’t generic aluminium blocks — they are precision-designed for the exact thermal profile of Bitaxe boards.

This is what happens when a company full of mining hackers decides to support the open-source movement. We don’t just sell Bitaxes — we make them better. We are the Bitaxe ecosystem company.

$ git log --oneline --reverse d-central/bitaxe-contributions

2023-01 First Bitaxe units tested in Laval lab
2023-03 Mesh Stand v1 designed and prototyped
2023-05 Mesh Stand v1 released — first Bitaxe accessory on market
2023-07 Custom heatsink R&D begins
2023-09 Heatsink v1 released — +15% thermal headroom
2023-11 Bitaxe Supra added to D-Central lineup
2024-02 Bitaxe Hex early testing and validation
2024-05 Full Bitaxe lineup stocked — Ultra to Hex
2024-08 Stand v2 — updated for all Bitaxe form factors
2025-01 Bitaxe GT added on launch day
2025-xx Continued R&D — more accessories coming

$ echo $COMMITMENT
Open source is not a marketing strategy.
It is a philosophy. We live it.

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D-Central's Mesh Stand is the must-have accessory for any Bitaxe. Proper airflow, clean look, and it just works. These guys get it.

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Step 1: Power Up

Plug your Bitaxe into a USB-C power adapter (5V 3A for single-chip models). The Hex uses a barrel jack with its included power supply. The fan spins up, the LED lights, and your miner boots into AxeOS within seconds.

Step 2: Connect to WiFi

On first boot, Bitaxe creates its own WiFi hotspot. Connect to it from your phone or laptop, and the AxeOS configuration page opens automatically. Enter your home WiFi credentials and save. Your Bitaxe joins your network and gets its own IP address.

Step 3: Configure Your Pool

Navigate to your Bitaxe’s IP address in a browser. In the AxeOS dashboard, enter your solo mining pool (like solo.ckpool.org) and your Bitcoin wallet address. Most people use public_pool.io or solo.ckpool.org for solo mining. Hit save.

Solo Mining Explained

In pool mining, thousands of miners combine their hash rate and split the rewards proportionally. You get small, regular payouts — but you are always sharing. Solo mining is the opposite. Your miner works alone. If your device is the one that finds the valid hash for the next Bitcoin block, you get the entire block reward: 3.125 BTC plus all transaction fees.

The math is simple but humbling. The Bitcoin network produces roughly 600 exahashes per second. A Bitaxe Supra does about 500 gigahashes per second. That means in any given second, your odds of finding the block are about 1 in 1.2 billion. Sounds impossible? People win traditional lotteries with worse odds. And unlike a scratch ticket, your Bitaxe plays every single second of every single day.

Solo miners have found blocks with small devices. It has happened. It is documented on-chain and celebrated by the community every time. The expected time to find a block with a single Bitaxe at current difficulty is measured in decades or centuries — but probability is not destiny. Someone has to find each block, and the network does not care how big your operation is.

Solo mining is sovereignty, not speculation. Your electricity cost is a few cents per day. Your potential upside is a six-figure payout. And unlike any financial instrument or gambling product, you are participating in something meaningful — you are directly securing the Bitcoin network and contributing to its decentralization.

The real question is not “will I find a block?” but “can I afford NOT to be in the game?” A few dollars a month in electricity for an asymmetric bet on the hardest money ever created. That is the Bitaxe proposition.

$ python3 solo_mining_calculator.py

=== SOLO MINING PROBABILITY ===

Network Hashrate: ~600 EH/s
Bitaxe Supra:     ~500 GH/s
Bitaxe Hex:       ~3 TH/s
Block Reward:     3.125 BTC
Blocks per Day:   144

--- Single Bitaxe Supra ---
Your share of network: 0.000000083%
Expected time to block: ~150 years
Daily electricity cost: ~$0.03
Potential reward: 3.125 BTC

--- Bitaxe Hex ---
Your share of network: 0.0000005%
Expected time to block: ~25 years
Daily electricity cost: ~$0.17
Potential reward: 3.125 BTC

--- BUT REMEMBER ---
"Expected time" is a statistical average.
Blocks have been found by small miners
within DAYS of starting.

Variance is the solo miner's best friend.
You only need to get lucky ONCE.

$ echo "Fortune favours the hashing."

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I ran my Bitaxe for 47 days and found a block. The statistics said centuries. The blockchain said otherwise. Solo mining is the ultimate proof that probability is not certainty.

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