Bitcoin Mining in Apartments: The Complete Guide to Mining in Small Spaces

Can You Mine Bitcoin in an Apartment?

Yes. You absolutely can mine Bitcoin in an apartment. People do it every day — from studio apartments in Toronto to two-bedroom units in Montreal. But apartment mining is a different discipline than mining in a house with a garage, a basement, and a 200-amp electrical panel. You are working within constraints: shared walls, limited circuits, no exterior ducting, and a landlord who may or may not understand why your electricity bill spiked.

The good news is that the Bitcoin mining hardware landscape has evolved (see our getting started guide) dramatically. You are no longer limited to screaming industrial ASICs that draw 3,000 watts and sound like a jet engine. Today, there are miners that draw less power than a laptop, produce less noise than a refrigerator, and fit on a bookshelf. Some produce zero audible noise at all. And in winter, every watt your miner consumes becomes heat for your apartment — thermodynamics does not care whether you live in a house or a high-rise.

This guide breaks down exactly what you can run in an apartment, organized by noise level, power consumption, and living situation. We cover the electrical realities, the heat management strategies, the noise mitigation techniques, and the lease considerations. No hand-waving. No “just buy a miner and figure it out.” This is the practical, apartment-specific mining guide that nobody else has written — because D-Central has been helping home miners navigate exactly these challenges since 2016.

Understanding Apartment Constraints

Before you buy a single piece of hardware, you need an honest assessment of your apartment’s limitations. Mining in an apartment is absolutely doable, but only if you respect the constraints. Ignoring them leads to noise complaints, tripped breakers, overheating, or a very uncomfortable conversation with your landlord.

Noise

This is constraint number one for apartment miners. A standard industrial ASIC miner — an Antminer S19 running at full power — produces 75+ dB of noise. That is louder than a vacuum cleaner running continuously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In a house, you can put it in a basement or garage and close the door. In an apartment, that noise travels through walls, floors, and ceilings. Your neighbors will hear it. They will complain. You will lose.

Apartment walls vary enormously in sound isolation. A concrete high-rise blocks significantly more sound than a wood-frame walk-up. Shared walls transmit more noise than exterior walls. Floors and ceilings matter — especially if you are running anything on a hard surface that can transmit vibration. The rule is simple: if your neighbor can hear your miner through a shared wall, you need a quieter miner or a different placement.

Electrical

Most apartments in North America are wired with 120V / 15A circuits — that is 1,800 watts maximum per circuit, and you should never run a sustained load above 80% of that limit (1,440W continuous). Some newer apartments have 20A circuits in kitchens and bathrooms, giving you 1,920W (1,536W continuous at 80%).

Here is the critical part: most apartment outlets share circuits. Your living room outlet, bedroom outlet, and hallway light might all be on the same 15A breaker. Plug a 1,350W miner into one outlet and a microwave into another on the same circuit, and you are tripping the breaker. There is no dedicated 240V circuit waiting for you. There is no sub-panel to tap into. You are working with what the building provides.

Heat

Every watt your miner consumes becomes heat. All of it. A 15W Bitaxe produces 15 watts of heat — you will never notice it. A 1,350W S9 Space Heater produces the equivalent of a large portable electric heater. In a Canadian winter, that is a feature, not a bug. In July in a 600-square-foot apartment with no central air, it is a serious problem.

Apartments typically lack the ducting options that houses have. You cannot easily vent hot air through a wall or into an attic. Your options are windows (if they open), portable air conditioning (which consumes additional electricity and costs money), or simply choosing hardware that does not produce meaningful heat.

Lease Restrictions

Most residential leases do not explicitly mention Bitcoin mining. But they may contain clauses about excessive electrical usage (especially if electricity is included in rent), modifications to the unit (running cables, installing ventilation), noise disturbances, fire safety, and commercial activity conducted in a residential unit. Read your lease. If electricity is included, running a 1,350W miner 24/7 is adding roughly $100-200/month to your landlord’s electrical bill. That will eventually get noticed.

Internet

This is the one constraint that almost never matters. Bitcoin mining uses negligible bandwidth — less than 1 Mbps for even the most powerful ASIC miner. A Bitaxe uses kilobytes per minute. Your apartment’s Wi-Fi connection is more than sufficient for open-source miners. Larger ASICs prefer a wired Ethernet connection for stability, but even that is not strictly required. Latency matters more than bandwidth — you want a stable connection, not a fast one. If you can stream Netflix, you can mine Bitcoin.

Tier 1: Silent Miners — Any Apartment, Zero Restrictions

These are the apartment miner’s best friends. They produce virtually no sound, draw less power than a light bulb, and plug into any standard outlet. No one will ever know you are mining unless you tell them. No electrical concerns, no heat concerns, no noise concerns. Just plug in, configure, and start solo mining for the dream of a full 3.125 BTC block reward.

To put the noise numbers in context: 30 dB is a quiet bedroom at night. 40 dB is a quiet library. 50 dB is normal conversation. Every miner in this tier falls well below the noise level of a typical apartment’s ambient sounds — HVAC, refrigerator, dishwasher, street noise. A Bitaxe Supra sitting on your desk is functionally inaudible from three feet away.

These miners are purpose-built for solo mining (also called lottery mining). You are not going to earn a steady daily payout — you are hashing away at the network, and if your device finds a valid block, you collect the entire 3.125 BTC reward. The probability on any given day is tiny, but it is never zero. Bitaxe miners have found real blocks on the Bitcoin mainnet. People have won. Every hash counts.

The Nerdminer is essentially an educational device with a screen that displays your hashrate and mining stats — it looks great on a desk and is a conversation starter. For actual solo mining probability, the Bitaxe Supra and Bitaxe Gamma are where the action is. If you want maximum silent hashrate, the Bitaxe Hex at 3.6 TH/s gives you the best odds of any open-source miner while still being quieter than a desktop computer.

Tier 2: Low-Noise Miners — Most Apartments

Tier 2 is where apartment mining gets interesting — and where the dual-purpose mining concept shines. These miners produce real hashrate (13-56 TH/s) and real heat, but they have been modified to operate at noise levels comparable to household appliances. A D-Central Space Heater Edition running in your living room is about as loud as a refrigerator. You will hear it, but it will not dominate a room or penetrate a shared wall with a neighbor.

D-Central Space Heater Editions

D-Central’s Space Heater Editions are the gold standard for apartment Tier 2 mining. We take refurbished, quality-tested ASIC miners (Antminer S9, S17, S19 series), replace the factory fans with premium silent fans, install them in custom 3D-printed enclosures designed to direct warm air into your living space, and underclock them for optimal noise-to-hashrate balance. The result is a device that mines Bitcoin and heats your apartment.

The thermodynamic math is simple and inescapable: every watt your miner consumes becomes heat at 100% efficiency. A 1,000W Space Heater produces 3,412 BTU/hr of heat — identical to a 1,000W electric space heater from any hardware store. The difference is that one just makes heat, and the other makes heat plus Bitcoin. If you are paying for electric heating anyway (and in Canada, most of us are), the Bitcoin is essentially free.

The key with Tier 2 miners in an apartment is seasonal strategy. In winter (roughly October through April in most Canadian cities), these miners replace your electric space heater. You were going to spend that electricity on heat anyway — now you are mining Bitcoin with it. In summer, Tier 2 miners become problematic in an apartment because you are adding significant heat load with limited cooling options. Most apartment miners run their Space Heaters during the heating season and switch to Tier 1 silent miners in summer.

Tier 3: Closet / Dedicated Room Setup — Flexible Apartments

Tier 3 is for apartment miners with more space and more ambition. If you have a walk-in closet, a spare bedroom, or a storage room, you can run a full-power ASIC miner with proper sound isolation and ventilation. This is not for every apartment — you need a space you can partially dedicate, a window for heat exhaust, and a circuit that can handle the load. But if you have those three things, you can run real hashrate.

The Apartment Mining Closet

A walk-in closet with a door is remarkably effective at containing sound. Add some basic acoustic treatment (mass-loaded vinyl on the shared wall, acoustic foam panels, weatherstripping around the door frame), and a 75 dB miner behind that door becomes 50-55 dB in the next room — comparable to normal conversation. The key requirements are:

• Ventilation: A closet with no airflow will overheat a miner in minutes. You need either a window nearby to exhaust hot air, or a setup that pulls cool apartment air in from the bottom and exhausts warm air back into the apartment (acceptable in winter, problematic in summer).
• Electrical access: An outlet inside or very near the closet, preferably on its own circuit.
• Sound isolation: A solid door (not a folding/bifold closet door), weatherstripping, and ideally some mass-loaded vinyl on shared walls.

What You Can Run

An Antminer S19 or S21 running Braiins OS+ firmware with autotuning allows you to underclock the miner to fit your apartment’s electrical and noise constraints. A stock S19j Pro running at 104 TH/s draws 3,068W and produces 75+ dB of noise. That same miner running Braiins OS+ downclocked to 50 TH/s draws approximately 1,200-1,400W, produces less heat, and — with aftermarket fan replacements — can be brought down to 55-60 dB. Behind a closet door with basic acoustic treatment, that is livable.

Tier 3 is seasonal in most apartments. Running a 1,200W underclocked ASIC in a closet works beautifully from October through March — the heat warms your apartment, the miner is behind a door, and the noise is contained. In summer, unless you have a dedicated window exhaust fan pulling hot air outside, you will be heating an already warm apartment with no good way to get rid of that heat. Many Tier 3 apartment miners run a full ASIC in winter and switch to a stack of Bitaxe units in summer.

Electrical Planning for Apartment Miners

Electrical planning is where apartment miners either succeed or start tripping breakers at 2 AM. Take this seriously. A tripped breaker is annoying. An overloaded circuit is a fire hazard. And calling your building’s super to explain why the breaker keeps tripping invites questions you may not want to answer.

Step 1: Map Your Apartment’s Circuits

Your first task is figuring out which outlets share which breakers. Here is how:

1. Find your apartment’s electrical panel (usually in a closet, hallway, or near the front door).
2. Turn on a lamp or radio in each room.
3. Flip breakers one at a time, and note which outlets and lights go dark with each breaker.
4. Label each breaker with the rooms and outlets it controls.
5. Pay special attention to the outlet where you plan to plug in your miner — know exactly what else shares that circuit.

Step 2: Calculate Your Available Capacity

Once you know which outlets share which circuits, calculate how much capacity is available for mining:

Example: Your bedroom circuit is 15A / 120V. The 80% continuous limit is 1,440W. Your bedroom has a lamp (60W), phone charger (10W), and alarm clock (5W) — 75W total. That leaves 1,365W available for mining. An S9 Space Heater drawing 1,150W is well within that limit. A full-power S19 at 3,068W is absolutely not.

Step 3: Safety Rules for Apartment Mining

• Never use power strips or extension cords for ASIC miners. Plug directly into the wall outlet. Power strips have thin wiring that can overheat under sustained load.
• Never daisy-chain surge protectors. If you need surge protection, use a single high-quality unit rated for your miner’s wattage.
• Avoid running two high-power devices on the same circuit simultaneously. A miner plus a microwave, hair dryer, or portable heater on one circuit is a recipe for tripped breakers.
• Monitor your outlet temperature. Occasionally feel the outlet and plug after the miner has been running for an hour. Warm is normal. Hot means the connection is poor or the circuit is overloaded — stop immediately.
• If electricity is included in rent, be aware that landlords do monitor aggregate building power consumption. Running a 1,350W miner 24/7 adds roughly 972 kWh/month to your apartment’s usage — a noticeable increase that could trigger questions or lease enforcement. See the Lease & Legal section.

Heat Management in an Apartment

Heat is the apartment miner’s seasonal best friend and worst enemy. Understanding how to work with it — not against it — is the difference between a mining setup you run year-round and one you unplug in June.

Winter: Your Miner IS Your Heater

This is where apartment mining makes the most economic sense, especially in Canada. The conversion is straightforward:

In a Canadian winter, an S9 Space Heater drawing 1,150W provides enough heat for a 150-200 square foot room — a typical bedroom or home office. Place it where you would place a normal space heater: near where you sit, away from curtains and furniture, on a flat surface with good airflow around the exhaust. The hot air it produces is clean, dry, and no different from any electric heater. You just happen to also be mining Bitcoin.

If your apartment uses electric baseboard heaters (as most Quebec apartments do), this is an especially compelling setup. You are already paying for electric heat at full residential rates. A Bitcoin Space Heater replaces that expenditure watt-for-watt, producing identical heat, plus whatever Bitcoin your hashrate earns. During heating season, the mining is effectively free — you were going to spend that electricity on heat regardless.

Summer: The Challenge

Summer in an apartment with a mining ASIC is a heat management problem. An 1,150W miner in a 600-square-foot apartment with no central air will noticeably raise the ambient temperature. Your options:

• Switch to Tier 1 miners only. A Bitaxe at 15W produces negligible heat. Run your silent miners year-round and only use Space Heaters during heating season. This is the simplest and most common approach.
• Window exhaust fan. Position your miner near a window and use a box fan or window exhaust fan to push hot air outside. This works reasonably well but requires an openable window near an outlet.
• Portable AC offset. A portable air conditioner can remove the heat your miner adds, but it consumes 1,000-1,500W on its own — essentially doubling your electricity cost for zero net heating benefit. Only worth it if you are running profitable pool mining and the mining revenue exceeds the AC cost.
• Underclock aggressively. Running a Braiins OS+ miner at 30-40% of its rated power cuts heat output proportionally while maintaining some hashrate. Combined with a window fan, this can be manageable.
• Run overnight only. If your apartment cools down at night, run the miner during cooler hours and pause during peak daytime heat. Mining pools track your average contribution, so intermittent operation still earns proportional rewards.

BTU Room Calculation

To figure out whether a miner’s heat output is manageable in your specific room:

1. Calculate the room’s square footage (length × width).
2. Multiply by 20 BTU/sq ft for a well-insulated apartment, or 25 BTU/sq ft for a poorly insulated one. This is the heating capacity the room needs in winter.
3. Your miner’s BTU output = Power in watts × 3.412.
4. In winter: if the miner’s BTU output is less than or equal to the room’s heating requirement, it can function as the room’s primary heat source.
5. In summer: that same BTU output is excess heat that must be removed or tolerated.

Example: A 10′ × 12′ bedroom = 120 sq ft. Heating requirement: 120 × 20 = 2,400 BTU/hr. An S9 Space Heater at 1,150W produces 3,924 BTU/hr — more than enough to heat the room. In fact, you might need to crack a window even in winter, which is fine because the heat the miner produces costs you nothing extra (you are mining with it). In summer, 3,924 BTU/hr of unwanted heat in a 120 sq ft room is oppressive. Switch to Bitaxe.

Noise Strategy for Shared Walls

Sound travels through apartment walls, floors, and ceilings. Structure-borne vibration is often worse than airborne noise. Here is how to keep your mining operation inaudible to your neighbors.

Choose the Right Hardware

This is the single most effective noise reduction strategy: start with quiet hardware. No amount of acoustic treatment will make a stock Antminer S19 (75+ dB) livable in an apartment. But a D-Central Space Heater Edition at 45-50 dB, or a Bitaxe at 25-30 dB, starts within acceptable range without any modifications.

Strategic Placement

• Maximize distance from shared walls. Place your miner against an exterior wall or a wall shared with your own rooms, never against a wall shared with a neighbor’s bedroom or living room.
• Avoid hard surfaces. A miner sitting directly on a hardwood floor or glass desk transmits vibration through the structure. Place it on a rubber anti-vibration mat, a folded towel, or a neoprene pad.
• Keep it off the floor if you have downstairs neighbors. A shelf or desk decouples the miner from the floor structure. Vibration pads underneath provide additional isolation.
• Closets and bathrooms with solid doors provide meaningful noise reduction — 15-25 dB attenuation depending on the door’s mass and how well it seals.

Vibration Isolation

Low-frequency vibration from spinning fans is often more noticeable through walls than the actual fan noise. Combat this with:

• Anti-vibration pads — Sorbothane or neoprene pads under the miner. Available for under $20.
• Rubber feet — Replace hard plastic feet with rubber bumpers.
• Floating shelf — Mount a shelf with rubber grommets at the mounting points.
• Decoupling mat — A thick yoga mat or rubber mat under the entire setup.

Timing Strategy

If you are running a Tier 2 miner and worried about neighbor noise sensitivity:

• Run at full power during daytime hours when neighbors are likely at work (8 AM to 6 PM).
• Underclock at night to reduce fan speed and noise. Braiins OS+ and AxeOS both support scheduled profiles.
• Weekend awareness — neighbors are home, so lower noise settings are prudent.
• For Tier 1 silent miners, this is a non-issue. A Bitaxe is quieter than your refrigerator at any hour.

Fan Replacement

The single biggest noise reduction for ASIC miners is replacing the factory fans with high-quality aftermarket units. Factory ASIC fans are designed for industrial settings where noise does not matter. Noctua iPPC series and Arctic P-series fans produce dramatically less noise at comparable airflow. D-Central’s Space Heater Editions come with premium silent fans pre-installed — this is one of the main things you are paying for.

Internet Requirements

Mining uses almost no bandwidth. This is one of the most commonly overestimated concerns for new miners. Here are the actual numbers:

Your apartment’s basic internet plan is more than sufficient. Mining data consists of tiny packets exchanged between your miner and the pool — job assignments, share submissions, and status updates. A 4K Netflix stream uses more bandwidth in 10 seconds than a miner uses in an entire day.

What does matter is connection stability. If your Wi-Fi drops for 30 seconds, your miner stops mining for 30 seconds. It reconnects automatically, and no work is lost (just time). But if your Wi-Fi is consistently flaky — dropping every few hours — you are losing mining uptime. For Tier 1 miners (Bitaxe, NerdAxe), Wi-Fi is perfectly acceptable because they have built-in Wi-Fi and reconnect quickly. For larger ASICs, a wired Ethernet connection eliminates any connectivity variability.

Latency (the time for data to travel between your miner and the pool) affects how quickly your miner receives new work after a block is found. High latency (200+ ms) means you might be hashing on stale work for a fraction of a second. For home miners, this is practically irrelevant to your earnings. But if you want to optimize, choose a pool with servers geographically close to you — a Canadian miner should choose a North American pool server.

Lease & Legal Considerations

Let’s address the question every apartment miner has: can my landlord stop me from mining?

The short answer is: it depends on your lease, your local regulations, and how much electricity your mining consumes. The longer answer follows.

What Your Lease Probably Says

Most residential leases do not mention Bitcoin mining, cryptocurrency, or computing equipment. However, several standard lease clauses can be relevant:

• “No commercial activity” — Mining could be interpreted as a commercial activity. Counter-argument: so is working from home on a laptop, which every lease permits. Mining at small scale is more akin to a hobby than a business. Whether this clause applies depends heavily on scale and jurisdiction.
• “Tenant responsible for excessive utility usage” — If electricity is included in rent, this is the most likely friction point. A Bitaxe at 15W adds pennies per month — no landlord will notice or care. An S9 Space Heater at 1,150W adds $70-150/month depending on your local electricity rate. That might trigger a conversation.
• “No modifications to the unit” — Running an Ethernet cable or mounting a shelf is not a modification. Installing a 240V outlet or cutting a hole for a vent duct is. Stay on the right side of this line.
• “Noise and disturbance” — If your miner generates noise complaints from neighbors, your landlord has grounds to ask you to stop. This is why hardware selection matters so much in an apartment.
• “No hazardous equipment” — A mining computer plugged into a wall outlet is not hazardous equipment. But if a building inspector sees an overloaded power strip daisy-chained to extension cords powering two ASIC miners, that is a different conversation.

If Electricity Is Included in Rent

This is the scenario every apartment miner dreams about — and the one that requires the most care. If your rent includes electricity, your mining electricity cost is zero. Free mining. The economics are incredible.

But landlords are not fools. Buildings have aggregate electricity meters. If your unit’s consumption jumps by 1,000 kWh/month (a 1,350W miner running 24/7), that will show up. Some landlords will not care. Some will add an electricity surcharge to your rent. Some will ask you to stop. And some leases contain clauses that allow the landlord to pass through excessive utility costs.

The practical approach: Tier 1 miners are nearly invisible on an electricity bill. A Bitaxe at 15W uses 10.8 kWh/month — roughly $1.50 at typical Canadian rates. Even three Bitaxe units total 32.4 kWh/month. No landlord in the world will notice or care about 32 extra kWh.

Insurance Considerations

Standard renter’s insurance typically covers personal property including computers and electronics. A small USB-powered miner is clearly covered. A larger ASIC miner should also be covered, but consider:

• Document your equipment with photos and receipts for insurance purposes.
• If your mining setup exceeds $2,000-3,000 in value, check if you need a rider on your policy for “high-value electronics.”
• If a mining device causes water damage, fire, or other property damage due to improper installation, your insurance may deny the claim. Proper electrical practices are not just safety — they are insurance protection.

Practical Advice

For Tier 1 miners (Bitaxe, NerdAxe, Nerdminer): Do not overthink it. These are small USB-powered devices no different from a laptop or a Raspberry Pi. No lease on earth prohibits plugging in a 15W electronics device. Mine in peace.

For Tier 2 and 3 miners: Know your lease, know your landlord, and know your local regulations. If electricity is metered to your unit and you pay for it, you have a strong position — you are simply using more electricity, which is your right. If electricity is included, tread carefully and consider whether the mining revenue justifies the risk of a lease dispute. And regardless of your lease situation, keep noise under control. A noise complaint is the fastest path to an uncomfortable conversation.

Recommended Apartment Mining Setups

Here are three complete, tested setups for different budgets and living situations. Each includes everything you need to start mining.

The Stealth Setup — $100-$300 CAD

Philosophy: Completely invisible mining. Zero noise. Zero heat. Zero electrical concerns. Zero chance of a neighbor complaint or a landlord question. Just a small device on your desk, silently hashing away at the Bitcoin network, giving you a shot at a full 3.125 BTC block reward.

Setup time: 15 minutes. Unbox the Bitaxe, connect the power supply, connect to your Wi-Fi, enter your Bitcoin wallet address and solo pool URL, and start mining. It is genuinely that simple. The AxeOS web interface is accessible from any browser on your network.

Upgrade path: Add more Bitaxe units over time. Each additional unit is another lottery ticket. Three Bitaxe Gammas on a Mesh Stand still draw under 75W total, produce no meaningful noise or heat, and triple your solo mining probability.

The Heater Setup — $500-$1,500 CAD

Philosophy: Replace your apartment’s electric space heater with one that mines Bitcoin. Same heat, same electricity cost, but now you are also earning sats. Ideal for heating season (October through April in Canada). Switch to a Bitaxe in summer.

The economic case: If you currently run a 1,500W portable electric heater in your bedroom from October through April (roughly 7 months), that costs approximately $756/year at $0.10/kWh. Replace that heater with a D-Central S9 Space Heater Edition drawing 1,150W, and your heating cost drops to $580/year — plus you earn Bitcoin mining revenue on top. The miner produces identical heat per watt as any electric heater. The Bitcoin is the bonus.

Summer transition: In May, unplug the Space Heater and plug in a Bitaxe. You keep mining year-round with zero heat or noise concerns. Store the Space Heater until October. This seasonal rotation is the optimal apartment mining strategy for Canadians.

The Closet Setup — $2,000-$4,000 CAD

Philosophy: Maximum hashrate that an apartment can realistically handle. A full ASIC miner, underclocked, in a closet with basic acoustic treatment. This is for the serious apartment miner who wants real hashrate, real pool mining income, and is willing to invest in the setup.

Circuit requirement note: At 1,200-1,400W on a 120V/15A circuit (1,440W continuous limit), you are right at the 80% derating threshold. This circuit must be dedicated to the miner — nothing else plugged in. Verify by tripping the breaker and confirming no other outlets or lights go dark. If your apartment does not have a circuit you can fully dedicate, this setup is not safe for your apartment. Drop to Tier 2 or Tier 1.

Summer considerations: At 1,200-1,400W, this setup produces serious heat — enough to make a closet uncomfortably warm in summer. You will need either a window exhaust path or the willingness to shut down from June through September. Alternatively, underclock further in summer (750-900W) and accept lower hashrate for lower heat output.

ROI Analysis for Apartment Miners

Apartment mining economics are different from standard mining profitability calculations because of two apartment-specific factors: heating offset and potentially free electricity.

Electricity Cost Scenarios

The Heating Offset Calculation

This is where apartment mining economics become compelling. If you currently heat your apartment with electric heat (baseboard heaters, portable heaters, or a heat pump), and you replace some of that heating with a Bitcoin miner, the miner’s electricity cost is not an additional expense — it replaces an existing one.

Example calculation (S9 Space Heater in a Montreal apartment):

• Electric baseboard heater in bedroom: 1,000W, running 16 hours/day in winter = 480 kWh/month = $33.60/month at Quebec rates ($0.07/kWh)
• Replace with S9 Space Heater: 1,150W, running 24/7 (why not — it earns Bitcoin) = 828 kWh/month = $57.96/month
• Net additional electricity cost: $57.96 – $33.60 = $24.36/month
• Bitcoin revenue from 4-13.5 TH/s pool mining varies with network difficulty and BTC price, but even modest hashrate earns more than $24.36/month in most market conditions
• Net result: you are mining Bitcoin at a net profit during heating season, because the heating electricity was money you were going to spend anyway

Solo Mining Probability (Tier 1)

For Bitaxe and NerdAxe solo miners, traditional ROI calculations do not apply. You are not earning steady daily income. You are buying lottery tickets. Very cheap lottery tickets that contribute to Bitcoin’s decentralization.

At current network difficulty (approximately 110T as of early 2025, and continues to adjust), a Bitaxe Gamma running at 1.2 TH/s has roughly a 1 in 7 million chance of finding a block on any given day. That sounds impossible — but Bitaxe miners have found blocks. The community tracks every confirmed Bitaxe block win with enthusiasm. At the current block reward of 3.125 BTC, a single win is worth a substantial amount regardless of the current market price.

The rational way to think about solo mining economics: the electricity cost is negligible ($1-3/month for a Bitaxe), the hardware cost is modest ($100-300), and the expected value per hash is mathematically identical whether you mine solo or in a pool. Solo mining simply concentrates all of your expected value into a single, rare, large payout rather than spreading it across many tiny daily payouts. Your money is the same in expectation — the distribution is different.

Apartment Mining Checklist

Before you set up any miner in your apartment, run through this checklist:

1. Read your lease. Look for clauses about electricity usage, noise, modifications, commercial activity, and hazardous equipment.
2. Check your electricity arrangement. Is it metered to your unit (you pay), included in rent (landlord pays), or a flat-rate utility charge?
3. Map your circuits. Find your breaker panel, identify which outlets share which breakers, and label them.
4. Measure your ambient noise. Download a free decibel meter app on your phone. Measure your apartment’s background noise level in the room where you plan to mine. Your miner should not exceed this by more than 10 dB.
5. Choose your tier. Based on your noise tolerance, electrical capacity, and lease situation, pick Tier 1, 2, or 3.
6. Plan for summer. If you are running a Tier 2 or 3 miner, have a strategy for heat management from May through September.
7. Get a Kill-A-Watt meter. Verify actual power draw. Do not trust spec sheets — real-world draw varies.
8. Set up monitoring. Use your miner’s web interface, a pool dashboard, or a monitoring app to track hashrate and uptime remotely.
9. Have a backup wallet. For solo mining, use a wallet address you control (hardware wallet preferred). Never mine to an exchange address.
10. Start small. Plug in one device, run it for a week, assess noise and heat, then scale up if everything is comfortable.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why D-Central for Apartment Mining

D-Central Technologies has been helping home miners since 2016. We are not a faceless drop-shipper selling hardware we have never touched. We are Bitcoin Mining Hackers based in Laval, Quebec — a team of technicians, builders, and Bitcoiners who repair, modify, and build mining hardware every single day. When we tell you a Bitaxe is perfect for an apartment, it is because we have tested it in apartments. When we say our Space Heater Edition is quiet enough for a living room, it is because we have run it in living rooms.

Here is what makes D-Central the right choice for apartment miners:

• Bitaxe Pioneers: D-Central is a pioneer in the Bitaxe ecosystem. We created the original Bitaxe Mesh Stand — the first company to manufacture it. We developed custom heatsinks for Bitaxe and Bitaxe Hex, designed cases, and stock every Bitaxe variant: Supra, Ultra, Gamma, Hex, and GT, plus NerdAxe, Nerdminer, NerdQAxe, and all accessories.
• Space Heater Specialists: We pioneered the Bitcoin Space Heater concept for home miners. Our 3D-printed enclosures are engineered for quiet operation and directed heat output — specifically designed for living spaces, not data centers.
• Full-Service Support: If something breaks, we repair it. D-Central has repaired 2,500+ miners and counting. We sell the parts, we do the diagnostics, and we fix the hardware. No other Bitaxe or mining accessories seller offers this depth of support.
• Canadian-Based: We ship from Laval, Quebec. Canadian customers get fast shipping, no customs headaches, and prices in Canadian dollars. We understand Canadian electricity rates, Canadian winters, and Canadian building codes because we live here.
• Mining Hackers: Our mission is the decentralization of every layer of Bitcoin mining. We believe every Bitcoiner should be running a miner — whether it is a $100 Bitaxe on a desk or a Space Heater in the living room. We hack institutional-grade mining technology into solutions that work for real people in real apartments. That is what we do.

Every hash counts. Every miner on the network strengthens Bitcoin’s decentralization. Whether you are running a Nerdminer on your nightstand or a Space Heater in your home office, you are participating in the most important monetary revolution in human history.

Start mining. Start stacking. Start here.