“When will you finally bring the Bitaxe”

“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 [...]

Review BTCPrague 2024

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 [...]

The new Stick-Miner GekkoScience Compac A1

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 [...]

Latest release of cgminer-gekko v4.12.1 Mining Software branch

Together with the release of the GekkoScience R909 Pod Miner miner, Kano has released a new version of the CGMiner GekkoScience Mining Software branch. Here I will explain the main innovations and describe installation, build and configuration for Linux, Windows and Mac. CGMiner Gekkoscience Branch Git Repository The original Git repo (master) of Kano can [...]

bitshopper GekkoScience R909 USB Pod Miner (1,5-2,0 TH/s)

From December 2022 we introduce the newest quiet consumer miner from GekkoScience, the newest addition to the Terminus pod-miner line, the R909. The successor to the popular R606 Pod Miner is a evolution of the powerful and efficient USB stick miner bitshopper Gekkoscience Compac F. Equipped with six Bitmain BM1397 ASICs (as used in the [...]

Introduction into Altcoin Scrypt Mining with Mooncoin

Victor recently bought a Scrypt USB-Stick Miner bitshopper Futurebit Moonlander 2 (3-5 MH/s) with us and today he came back to us asking how to mine the particularly exotic Scrypt Coin “Mooncoin”. Thanks for the inquiry, Victor. I’ll use you request and write a blog post about that topic. For time to time I get [...]