Oddbean

I was just checking out Ocean to use with my Bitaxe but decided to mine on self hosted solo pool instead. Should I be more seriously considering Ocean? With ~4TH/s I figure I’m better off playing the lottery than getting a few dozen sats every few days…

IMO solo mining is the way to go with a bitaxe. However it’s fun to mine on Ocean if only to experience the randomness and joy of sharing the small winnings of a block found. I think that randomness is a great teaching moment for people new to bitcoin. As we move into this new area of increasing TH/s low cost micro miners things are going to get very interesting - both for solo mining and Ocean datum mining (where you build the block template). A bitaxe is gonna find a block and people will be stunned.

A Bitaxe actually did find a block, which is why I figured why the hell not and sprang for a $500 SupraHex with 4+ TH. I used to mine Vertcoin on my GPU and wished I had the power and noise isolation to mine Bitcoin at home (small apartment life) so I thought it was pretty sweet when these low power, near silent Bitcoin miners came about. My AxeOS dashboard reports I’m pulling about 90W and it’s whisper quiet. Decentralization is fun. https://cointelegraph.com/news/tiny-500gh-home-bitcoin-mining-device-produced-a-block-earning-over-200k-btc