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Best Bitcoin miners under $500 in 2026 lineup including Bitaxe Gamma 602, Bitaxe Duo 650, Bitaxe GT 801, Bitaxe Touch Turbo, NerdQaxe++ Rev 6.1, Canaan Avalon Nano 3S, and Nerdaxe Gamma on orange Solo Satoshi background

Best Bitcoin Miners Under $500 in 2026

March 15, 2026 / March 15, 2026 by Matt Howard

Ready to start mining? Browse every Bitcoin miner under $500 in stock right now. Shop All Bitcoin Miners → You can start mining Bitcoin at home for under $90 with a real ASIC miner running the same BM1370 chip found inside Bitmain’s industrial Antminer S21 Pro. That is not hype. It is the state of […]

What is Bitaxe? The world's first open-source Bitcoin ASIC miner with OLED display and cooling fan on a Solo Satoshi branded stand

Bitaxe Education

What is Bitaxe?

February 8, 2026 / March 30, 2026 by Matt Howard

Table of Contents What is Bitaxe Origin and Motivation Hardware Architecture ESP-Miner Firmware and AxeOS Open-Source Licenses Model History Mining with Bitaxe Open Source Miners United ASIC Chip Supply Chain Significance for Bitcoin License Violations and Closed-Source Derivatives Documented Block Wins Ecosystem and Related Projects Where to Buy Bitaxe What is Bitaxe Bitaxe is an […]

Solo Satoshi storefront in Conroe, Texas, the first physical Bitcoin hardware store in the state, featuring a clean modern black metal building with a Bitcoin-orange awning over the entry

Solo Satoshi to Open First Bitcoin Hardware Store in Texas

May 1, 2026 by Matt Howard

Solo Satoshi has officially acquired its first storefront and warehouse, located 40 miles north of Houston, in Conroe, Texas. When the doors open to the public in late Q3 2026, it will become the first physical Bitcoin hardware store in the state of Texas. The 3,000 square foot space is being built out now, and […]

AxeOS firmware dashboard displaying live hashrate, efficiency, and share metrics next to a Bitaxe Gamma 601 Bitcoin miner

Bitaxe Education

AxeOS Explained: The Complete Guide to Bitaxe Firmware

March 29, 2026 / March 29, 2026 by Matt Howard

AxeOS is the open-source operating system that runs on every Bitaxe Bitcoin miner, controlling the ASIC chip, managing pool connections, and serving a browser-based dashboard for monitoring and configuration. Built on the ESP-Miner firmware codebase at github.com/bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner, the project has accumulated over 1,180 commits and 841 GitHub stars as of March 2026. This guide is […]

Bitaxe overclocking guide cover image showing a Bitaxe Gamma 602 with copper heatsink, OEM 40mm fan, Dark Horse pin-fin heatsink, and GH/s performance gauge by Solo Satoshi

Bitaxe Overclocking Guide: Every Model Covered (2026)

March 29, 2026 / March 29, 2026 by Matt Howard

Bitaxe overclocking increases the core frequency and voltage of the ASIC chip beyond factory defaults through the AxeOS web interface. No additional software is required. At conservative to moderate levels, no hardware changes are needed either. The BM1370, BM1368, and BM1366 chips all support real-time adjustment natively. Higher frequency means more SHA-256 hash computations per […]

AxeOS dashboard showing 2.01 TH/s hashrate with 3.04 percent ASIC error rate highlighted by orange arrow on Bitaxe miner

What Is the Hashrate Error Percentage on Bitaxe?

March 28, 2026 / May 11, 2026 by Matt Howard

The hashrate error percentage displayed on the AxeOS dashboard is one of the most misunderstood metrics in open-source Bitcoin mining. It appears as a small percentage next to your hashrate reading, and many new miners confuse it with rejected shares or pool-side errors. It is neither. The error percentage is a hardware-level metric that comes […]

Start9 Announces Fully Open Source RISC-V Router

March 27, 2026 / March 28, 2026 by Matt Howard

On March 27, 2026, Start9 CEO Matt Hill hosted a private unveiling of StartOS 0.4.0, the next major version of the operating system that powers the Start9 Server One. During that same session, Hill also gave viewers a first look at StartWrt, the router’s dedicated operating system. StartWrt is Start9’s fork of OpenWrt with a […]