Glossar
Mining-Begriffe einfach erklärt
Von ASIC bis Stratum – die wichtigsten Begriffe rund ums Bitcoin-Mining zuhause.
- ASIC
- An ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) is a special chip that does just one job extremely efficiently – in Bitcoin mining, computing SHA-256 hashes. All modern Bitcoin miners rely on ASICs.
- AxeOS
- The open firmware that Bitaxe, Nerdaxe and NerdQaxe run on. Through a web dashboard you control pool, frequency and voltage and see hashrate and temperature in real time – without a manufacturer account.
- BM1370
- The efficient mining ASIC from Bitmain’s current devices, used in the Bitaxe Gamma, NerdQaxe and NerdOctaxe. Good efficiency (J/TH) in a compact form factor.
- Bitaxe
- A well-known open-source design for a single-ASIC miner (currently with the BM1370). The Bitaxe is the most popular way into home and solo mining. See the Bitaxe Gamma 601.
- Block reward
- The amount of Bitcoin plus transaction fees that the finder of a block receives. In solo mining you get the full reward if you hit a block.
- Difficulty
- The mining difficulty adjusts roughly every two weeks so that on average a block is found every 10 minutes. As the global hashrate rises, difficulty rises too.
- Efficiency (J/TH)
- Joules per terahash measures how much energy a miner needs per unit of compute. Lower values are better – they mean lower electricity costs at the same hashrate.
- Halving
- About every four years the block reward halves. This makes Bitcoin scarcer and shapes mining economics over the long term.
- Hashrate
- A miner’s compute power, measured in hashes per second (e.g. TH/s = trillions per second). More hashrate means a higher chance of finding a block.
- Lightning
- The Lightning Network is a second layer on top of Bitcoin for fast, cheap payments. You can use it to pay in our shop.
- NerdQaxe / NerdOctaxe
- Open-source miners with several BM1370 ASICs for more hashrate than a single Bitaxe. The NerdQaxe ++ uses four, the NerdOctaxe eight ASICs.
- Nonce
- A number the miner keeps changing to find a valid block hash. Trying vast numbers of nonces is what mining actually is.
- Pool mining
- Many miners combine their hashrate in a pool and share the proceeds by contribution. This brings regular small payouts instead of the solo lottery.
- Solo mining
- You mine alone against the entire network. If you find a block, the full reward is yours – a lottery with a high payout. More on this in our guide on solo mining.
- Stratum
- The protocol your miner uses to connect to a pool. In AxeOS you enter the stratum URL, port and your Bitcoin address.
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