Buy a Bitcoin miner – open-source hardware for home

You want to buy a Bitcoin miner and mine at home yourself? Then there is hardly a way around open hardware: devices like Bitaxe, Nerdaxe and NerdQaxe are quiet, efficient and, with the AxeOS firmware, give you full control – without cloud lock-in and without a manufacturer account. Here you find the right devices for every budget, plus shipping from the EU and payment via Bitcoin, card or bank transfer.

Which Bitcoin miners are there for home?

Home miners differ mainly in the number of mining chips and therefore in hashrate, power consumption and price. All recommendable devices use the efficient BM1370 ASIC and run AxeOS:

• Single ASIC (Bitaxe / Nerdaxe Gamma): ~1.3 TH/s at ~15 W – the cheap, economical entry.
• Multi-ASIC (NerdQaxe ++): 4 chips, ~4.8 TH/s – more hashrate, still living-room friendly.
• High-end (NerdOctaxe): 8 chips, up to ~12 TH/s – maximum block chance per device.

What matters when buying

• Current generation with a real BM1370 ASIC for good efficiency (J/TH).
• A matching power supply and ideally a cooling option in the set.
• Open firmware (AxeOS) instead of a locked black box with cloud lock-in.
• Warehouse and shipping in the EU – no customs, no long wait.
• Reachable support in your language and a clear right of withdrawal.

All criteria explained in detail in our buying guide Buying a Bitaxe: what to look out for.

Why open source instead of an industrial miner?

Classic industrial miners are loud, power-hungry and closed. Open-source hardware is the opposite: quiet enough for the living room, economical and fully in your hands. You control pool, frequency and voltage yourself and own a device you can repair and keep using. What that means exactly you can read in What is open-source Bitcoin mining?

Which miner suits you?

From the cheap entry to maximum hashrate, there is something for everyone. Our miner comparison puts the models side by side by hashrate, consumption and price. Unsure whether operation is worth it? Then read Solo mining – is it worth it? and Calculating profitability realistically.

Payment & shipping

You pay by credit card, classic SEPA transfer or, fittingly for the topic, with Bitcoin & Lightning – with a 5 % discount for Bitcoin payment. We ship stock within 24 hours across Europe, with no customs surprises. That turns “buy a Bitcoin miner” into a straightforward process.