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NerdAxe Gamma

A single-chip board in the NerdQAxe enclosure and firmware, with a colour screen instead of the Bitaxe's monochrome OLED. Same performance as a Gamma 602 at a meaningful premium — you are buying the finish and the display.

Hashrate
1.20 TH/s
Power
18 W
Efficiency
15.0 J/TH
Chips
1× BM1370
$165$138 / 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
$2.24
0.43 kWh per day
Power cost / year
$27
158 kWh per year
Expected BTC / day
60 sats
Long-run statistical average
Expected value / month
$1.19
$1.05 below power cost

The odds, honestly

At the current network difficulty of 1.262e+14, a NerdAxe Gamma is expected to find a block roughly once every 14.32K years. That is an average across infinite attempts, not a countdown — a block could come tomorrow, or never.

Odds in 1 year
1 in 14.32K
Odds in 5 years
1 in 2.86K
Chance of a win in 5 yrs
0.03%
If you win, you win
3.155 BTC
≈ $203,879 at the current price — the full block subsidy plus fees, paid to you alone.
Five years of ownership
$299
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 $1.19 a month, against $2.24 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 60 sats mined costs $0.0734 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.

Full specifications

ASIC chip
1× BM1370
Stock hashrate
1.20 TH/s
Tuned hashrate
1.50 TH/s
Stock power
18 W
Tuned power
29 W
Efficiency
15.0 J/TH
Tuned efficiency
19.3 J/TH
Power input
12V DC
PSU included
Yes
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 2.4GHz
Display
2.4in colour LCD
Noise
~35 dB
Dimensions
110 × 95 × 45 mm
Weight
0.3 kg
Form factor
desktop
Firmware
NerdQAxe (AxeOS fork)
Open source
Yes
Solo mining
Yes
Pool mining
Yes
Built-in full node
No
Released
2025

The verdict

Best for: Buyers already in the NerdQAxe ecosystem who want a small second unit.

Strengths

  • Colour display and finished case
  • PSU included
  • NerdQAxe firmware ecosystem

Trade-offs

  • Substantially more expensive than a Gamma 602 for identical hashrate
  • A Duo 650 costs less and hashes more

About NerdQAxe / NerdMiner

Community designs from shufps that scale the Bitaxe idea to four and eight ASICs on one board. NerdQAxe boards ship with the OSMU-derived NerdQAxe firmware and are the usual step up when a single-chip Bitaxe stops being enough.

github.com/shufps/qaxe

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