FutureBit Apollo II
The only device here that is also a full Bitcoin node. An integrated Linux computer runs bitcoind on an internal SSD and the miner solo-mines against your own node — no trusting a third-party solo pool with your block template. ECO mode does 8.3 TH/s at 225W; TURBO pushes to 10 TH/s at 400W.
Typical street price, excluding shipping and duties.
Specs verified 6 Aug 2026. Source
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 FutureBit Apollo II is expected to find a block roughly once every 2.07K 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 $27.94 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 417 sats mined costs $0.9180 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.
Full specifications
- ASIC chip
- 4× FutureBit 5nm
- Stock hashrate
- 8.30 TH/s
- Tuned hashrate
- 10.00 TH/s
- Stock power
- 225 W
- Tuned power
- 400 W
- Efficiency
- 27.1 J/TH
- Tuned efficiency
- 40.0 J/TH
- Power input
- AC mains, integrated 450W PSU
- PSU included
- Yes
- Connectivity
- Ethernet, Wi-Fi
- Display
- None (web dashboard)
- Noise
- ~40 dB
- Dimensions
- 200 × 130 × 160 mm
- Weight
- 3.5 kg
- Form factor
- desktop
- Firmware
- Apollo OS (Linux)
- Open source
- No
- Solo mining
- Yes
- Pool mining
- Yes
- Built-in full node
- Yes
- Released
- 2024
The verdict
Best for: Sovereignty-minded miners who want to solo against their own node.
Strengths
- True self-custodial solo mining against your own node
- US-designed and assembled
- ECO/BALANCED/TURBO modes let you dial power against hashrate
- Doubles as a desktop full node and Lightning host
Trade-offs
- 27 J/TH in ECO, 40 J/TH in TURBO — behind a NerdQAxe++
- By far the most expensive per terahash on this site
- Sold out at FutureBit and superseded by the Apollo III
- Closed hardware
About FutureBit
US-designed and assembled desktop miners. The Apollo line is unusual in that it runs a full Bitcoin node on the device itself, so you can solo mine against your own node rather than someone else's.
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