Nikos has published what he believes is the first public Canaan A3197S reverse engineering. His custom firmware TNA-OS drives the Avalon Nano 3s with 0% dev fee and zero phone-home telemetry. […]
BitForge Nano Ghost Edition, winner of the Silver Award at the 2026 London Design Awards – a compact open-source Bitcoin home miner from The Solo Mining Co, designed by I Am GPIO. […]
TL;DR for readers in a hurry: Futurebit has significantly improved the Apollo III ASICs. The new chips reach roughly 11 watts per terahash (W/TH) – an ultra-efficient ECO mode with about 70 watts total power draw at 6 TH/s is now possible, while the full hashrate range of 10–18 TH/s remains available. All existing Apollo [...]
The FutureBit Apollo III Full Node is now available for pre-order – and it’s likely to be the most exciting piece of hardware this year for anyone who takes Bitcoin seriously. Compact, powerful, and consistently designed for superior performance: The Apollo III combines a fully-fledged Bitcoin full node, a 3nm ASIC miner with up to [...]
Hello Bitcoin fans and mining enthusiasts! Today, I’m introducing you to a real highlight: The Bitaxe Gamma v601 SuperSink Overclocker Edition, which shines with a stable hashrate of up to 1.9 TH/s. This compact and open-source Bitcoin miner is specifically designed for home solo lottery mining and delivers maximum performance in a small, quiet package [...]
TL;DR: To support the launch of the new GekkoScience Compac A2, Kano released cgminer-gekko v4.13.5 in late October 2025. The release introduces support for the Compac A2 with Bitmain BM1370 ASIC (7 nm, up to 1 TH/s), keeps full backward compatibility with the R909 and Compac F, and adds three major new features: a per-API [...]
To coincide with the release of the new GekkoScience USB stick miner Compac A1, Kano has released a new version of the GekkoScience branch of the CGMiner mining software. This new version includes, for the first time, enhancements for displaying ASIC temperature, power consumption, and other telemetry data. I’ll explain the key new features here. [...]
“When are you finally bringing the Bitaxe into the shop” you asked me… “Not that easy!” I said. “I don’t want to have it produced in China,” I said. And in Germany, the production costs for such small runs are beyond belief. Then at BTCPrague 2024 we sat down with our friends from TheSoloMining.co, who [...]
Now it’s over and a week has passed. Time to let the experience sink in and recap the many conversations. “What a blaaast!” wrote Martin, one of the founders of BTC Prague on X and I can definitely agree with that. For us it was the first conference of this kind. 20 hours a day [...]
We are happy to announce the first product of the GekkoScience Miner Generation 2024: the new GekkoScience Compac A1. It comes with two updated Bitmain BM1362 ASICs, well known and used in the Bitmain S19j Miner Series. With their 7nm architecture, these ASICs are currently among the most efficient SHA256d ASICs on the market. The [...]
