Avalon Mini 3
A step into real hashrate: 37.5 TH/s is roughly eight NerdQAxe++ units in one tower, at 21.3 J/TH. At 800W it is a genuine appliance-class load — think of it as running a permanent electric heater, because that is exactly what it is.
What it costs, what it might win
Running costs across the site use this rate. The default is a typical household tariff — check your own bill for the real number.
The odds, honestly
At the current network difficulty of 1.262e+14, a Avalon Mini 3 is expected to find a block roughly once every 458 years. That is an average across infinite attempts, not a countdown — a block could come tomorrow, or never.
If you pooled instead
Point the same device at a normal mining pool and you would receive the statistical average steadily instead of gambling on it: about $0.0000 a month, against $99.36 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 1885 sats mined costs $3.26 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.
Full specifications
- ASIC chip
- 30× Canaan A3 (5nm)
- Stock hashrate
- 37.50 TH/s
- Stock power
- 800 W
- Efficiency
- 21.3 J/TH
- Power input
- AC mains, integrated PSU
- PSU included
- Yes
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 2.4GHz, Ethernet
- Display
- Status LEDs
- Noise
- ~45 dB
- Dimensions
- 200 × 200 × 300 mm
- Weight
- 5.5 kg
- Form factor
- tower
- Firmware
- Canaan (app-managed)
- Open source
- No
- Solo mining
- Yes
- Pool mining
- Yes
- Built-in full node
- No
- Released
- 2024
The verdict
Best for: Heating a room through winter while holding a much larger lottery ticket.
Strengths
- Serious hashrate for a home device
- Good efficiency at 21.3 J/TH
- Integrated PSU, no DC bricks
Trade-offs
- 800W continuous — over $1,000/year at €0.30/kWh
- Needs deliberate placement for heat and noise
- Closed ecosystem
About Canaan Avalon
One of the two large ASIC manufacturers. The Avalon Nano, Mini and Q lines are Canaan's consumer push: closed firmware and an app instead of a web UI, but proper industrial silicon, real warranties and usable waste heat.
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