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Lucky Miner LV08

A factory-built four-chip board in the NerdQAxe++ hashrate class. It used to undercut the ++ substantially; at current pricing the two are within a few dollars of each other, which leaves efficiency as the deciding factor — and at 26.7 J/TH against the ++'s 15, a year of 24/7 running costs meaningfully more.

Hashrate
4.50 TH/s
Power
120 W
Efficiency
26.7 J/TH
Chips
4× BM1370
$268$60 / TH

Typical street price, excluding shipping and duties.

Specs verified 6 Aug 2026. Source

What it costs, what it might win

Currency
$/ kWh
h

Running costs across the site use this rate. The default is a typical household tariff — check your own bill for the real number.

Power cost / month
$14.90
2.88 kWh per day
Power cost / year
$179
1052 kWh per year
Expected BTC / day
226 sats
Long-run statistical average
Expected value / month
$4.45
$10.45 below power cost

The odds, honestly

At the current network difficulty of 1.262e+14, a Lucky Miner LV08 is expected to find a block roughly once every 3.82K years. That is an average across infinite attempts, not a countdown — a block could come tomorrow, or never.

Odds in 1 year
1 in 3.82K
Odds in 5 years
1 in 764.07
Chance of a win in 5 yrs
0.13%
If you win, you win
3.155 BTC
≈ $203,848 at the current price — the full block subsidy plus fees, paid to you alone.
Five years of ownership
$1,162
Hardware plus power. This is what the ticket costs you, win or lose.

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 $4.45 a month, against $14.90 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 226 sats mined costs $0.4896 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.

Full specifications

ASIC chip
4× BM1370
Stock hashrate
4.50 TH/s
Stock power
120 W
Efficiency
26.7 J/TH
Power input
12V DC, PSU included
PSU included
Yes
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 2.4GHz
Display
Colour LCD
Noise
~40 dB
Dimensions
200 × 128 × 70 mm
Weight
1 kg
Form factor
desktop
Firmware
AxeOS derivative
Open source
Yes
Solo mining
Yes
Pool mining
Yes
Built-in full node
No
Released
2025

The verdict

Best for: Buyers with cheap electricity who care about upfront cost.

Strengths

  • Arrives assembled, no PSU or case to source
  • Arrives assembled with a case and PSU
  • Quiet for the hashrate

Trade-offs

  • 26.7 J/TH — nearly double the power per terahash of a NerdQAxe++
  • Vendor firmware lags upstream AxeOS
  • Listing specs on marketplaces are inconsistent; verify before buying

About Lucky Miner

Commercially manufactured boards that follow the open-source Bitaxe lineage, sold fully assembled with a case and PSU. Cheaper and easier to buy than a hand-built Bitaxe, at the cost of less community support.

luckyminerclub.com

Consider instead

  • NerdQAxe / NerdMiner

    NerdQAxe++

    4.80 TH/s · 71 W · 14.8 J/TH

    $280
  • Canaan Avalon

    Avalon Nano 3

    4.00 TH/s · 140 W · 35.0 J/TH

    $200
  • Canaan Avalon

    Avalon Nano 3S

    6.00 TH/s · 140 W · 23.3 J/TH

    $299