The Definitive Bitaxe Overclocking Manual: Every Model, Every Setting, Maximum Hashrate
Solo mining is a numbers game. Your Bitaxe is hashing against the entire Bitcoin network — roughly 800+ EH/s of combined computational power.
Bitcoin Mining Blog
Mining knowledge, repair guides, and industry insights from the workshop floor.
Open-Source Bitcoin Miners Comparison 2026: Bitaxe, NerdAxe, NerdQAxe & More
The entire history of Bitcoin mining hardware has been a story of centralization. A handful of manufacturers, behind closed doors, designing chips and machines that only they control.
Pool Mining vs Solo Mining: The Complete Decision Guide 2026
Every Bitcoin miner faces a fundamental decision before their first hash is computed: pool mining or solo mining? This choice shapes your economics, your privacy, your relationship with the…
Bitcoin Space Heater vs Electric Heater: The Complete 5-Year Cost Comparison
Yes. Both devices convert 100% of consumed electricity into heat — this is dictated by the first law of thermodynamics.
Pool Failover & Backup-Pool Configuration: A Practical Setup Guide
Set up primary, secondary and tertiary mining pools across stock Bitmain, BraiinsOS+ and AxeOS — plus how to spot a silent failover before it costs you.
Three-Phase Power and Power Quality for ASIC Hashcenters
Scaling a Bitcoin hashcenter past a few rigs: three-phase service, harmonics and power factor from ASIC PSUs, the NEC 80% rule, and PDU selection.
ASIC Hashboard Reflow Profile Reference (SAC305 + Aluminum-Substrate Adjustment)
Four-stage SAC305 reflow profile for ASIC hashboard rework: preheat, soak, peak, cooling, plus the aluminum-substrate adjustments FR4 profiles miss.
Hashboard Serial-Chain Signal-Integrity Diagnosis: Clock & Reset Chain Debugging
How to diagnose a broken BM13xx hashboard serial chain: scope the clock and reset signals, read the chip count, and bisect to the first failing ASIC.
Counterfeit, Remarked & Recycled ASIC Chip Detection — A Bench Authentication Guide
How buyers and repair shops spot counterfeit, remarked, and recycled mining ASIC chips: microscope, solvent rub, date-code logic, and electrical binning.
The DCENT Suite Goes Public: Four Open Repos and the First DCENT_OS Beta Images
Yesterday we flipped the biggest switch in D-Central’s history as a software builder: the DCENT_OS public beta is live, with the first signed, downloadable firmware…
Selling on Nostr: NIP-15 Marketplaces and Bitcoin-Native Commerce
How NIP-15 Nostr marketplaces work: stall/product events, the order-payment flow, Shopstr and Plebeian Market, and pairing with Lightning and BTCPay.
SBI Crypto Is Shutting Down Its Mining Pool: How to Migrate Your Miners Before July 30
SBI Crypto closes its public Bitcoin mining pool on July 30, 2026, sending ~2% of network hashrate looking for a new home. Step-by-step migration guide: withdraw balances, repoint stratum URLs, verify shares, and compare payout schemes.
NixOS for Sovereign Bitcoiners: A Declarative, Reproducible Node + Local-AI Server
NixOS for sovereign Bitcoiners: a declarative, reproducible node plus local AI, Tor and a Nostr relay in one config, with atomic rollbacks.
Private Messaging for Bitcoiners: SimpleX, Briar, Signal & Nostr DMs
SimpleX, Briar, Signal, and Nostr DMs compared by threat model: content vs metadata vs social graph. A neutral privacy messaging guide for Bitcoiners.
Tor vs I2P vs Clearnet for Your Bitcoin Node: A Network-Privacy Decision Guide
Clearnet vs Tor vs I2P for your Bitcoin node: real trade-offs on latency, eclipse attacks, and censorship, plus bitcoin.conf snippets to run all three.
Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90): The Decentralized AI & Compute Marketplace
How Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90) work: job-kind events, the Lightning-zap payment loop, DVMs vs centralized AI vs DePIN, and running your own.
Run Your Miner Off Solar and Battery: State-of-Charge-Driven Mining
Tune your miner to watts, not hashrate, and tie that budget to your battery state of charge. A practical playbook for solar and battery (SoC-driven) mining.
Monitor Your Home Miners: A Self-Hosted Prometheus + Grafana Stack
Stand up a single-pane-of-glass for your home mining fleet in one evening. A copy-paste Prometheus + Grafana + node_exporter stack on a Raspberry Pi, with a sample dashboard and the four alerts that actually save sats.
Bitaxe Gamma 601 vs 602: What Actually Changed Between Board Revisions
This is the first entry in the Bitaxe Encyclopedia hardware-revision changelog — a running, plain-English record of what actually changes between board revisions of the…
Automated Growing on the Sovereign Homestead: FarmBot, Open-Source Greenhouse Control, and Miner Heat
Automated growing is the food layer of a resilient homestead: an open-source robot that seeds, waters and weeds a raised bed, an open controller that…
DCENT_OS Closed Beta Log #1: What Closed Beta Actually Looks Like
Update, 9 July 2026: the milestone this log was tracking has shipped. DCENT_OS is now in public beta — downloadable images for the Antminer S9…
How to Build a Genuinely Quiet Bitcoin Mining Setup at Home (Without Killing Your Hashrate)
Build a genuinely quiet bitcoin mining setup at home: pick a quiet-capable miner, underclock in firmware to cut heat, and build an airflow-first enclosure.
Bitaxe vs Avalon Nano vs Antminer: The Complete Home Bitcoin Miner Comparison (2026)
Bitaxe vs Avalon Nano vs Antminer: the only 3-way home Bitcoin miner comparison for 2026, ranked by hashrate, efficiency, noise, heat, price (CAD) and skill.
The Sovereign Stack, One Map: Bitcoin + Mesh + Local AI + Renewable Energy
The sovereign tech stack in one map: own your data, compute, code, and power. Four pillars tying Bitcoin, mesh, local AI, and renewable energy together.
Claude Code, Codex and Local Coding Agents: Can a Pleb Run Them Offline?
Claude Code and Codex are cloud agents. Here’s what it really takes to run an equivalent local coding agent fully offline on open weights, and when to do it.
Behind-the-Meter Bitcoin Mining: Running Miners on Home Solar
Running a miner behind the meter on home solar, consuming your own generation as a controllable load instead of exporting it cheaply, plus the building blocks, the export trade-off, and the safety and code basics.
Your Right to Repair Your ASIC: What the Law Actually Lets You Do
What right-to-repair laws across the US, EU, and Canada actually entitle an ASIC owner to: parts, tools, documentation, and TPM repair rights, and what they do not. Informational, not legal advice.
Net Metering vs Net Billing for Home Bitcoin Miners in Canada
How Canadian net metering and net billing credit your solar surplus, and why running a miner as a controllable load on midday solar usually beats exporting it below retail.
Mesh & Off-Grid Comms Protocols for Bitcoiners: A Neutral Landscape
There is no single “best” off-grid messaging protocol for Bitcoiners. The right tool depends on the medium you can use, the range you need, whether…
Meshtastic over MQTT: Bridging Your Mesh to the Internet (and the Trade-offs)
The Meshtastic MQTT module bridges a local LoRa mesh to the wider internet by letting an internet-connected node act as a gateway that forwards mesh…
MCP for Plebs: What the Model Context Protocol Is, and Why It Powers DCENT_axe Control
What is MCP? A plain-English explainer of the Model Context Protocol – how MCP servers and tools let your AI agent control your own Bitcoin miner, locally.
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS: A Sovereign Mobile Base for Bitcoiners
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are de-Googled Android operating systems that turn a supported phone into a privacy-hardened base for Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, and other sovereignty tools.…
Ecash on Bitcoin: A Practical Guide to Cashu and Fedimint
Ecash on Bitcoin is private, custodial digital cash. Using Chaumian blind signatures, a mint issues bearer tokens backed by Bitcoin and Lightning, but cannot see…
Reticulum: A Cryptography-First Mesh Stack for Sovereign, Off-Grid Comms
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack, created by Mark Qvist, that lets anyone build local and wide-area networks over almost any medium — LoRa radio,…
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Last reviewed June 27, 2026.