NerdOCTAXE-Gamma
Eight BM1370 chips — the largest open-source board you can buy. Just under 10 TH/s at 160W keeps it in the same efficiency class as the ++, but at this power level fan noise and heat stop being background details.
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 NerdOCTAXE-Gamma is expected to find a block roughly once every 1.79K 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 $9.49 a month, against $19.87 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 483 sats mined costs $0.6528 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.
Full specifications
- ASIC chip
- 8× BM1370
- Stock hashrate
- 9.60 TH/s
- Tuned hashrate
- 12.00 TH/s
- Stock power
- 160 W
- Tuned power
- 210 W
- Efficiency
- 16.7 J/TH
- Tuned efficiency
- 17.5 J/TH
- Power input
- 12V DC, 20A
- PSU included
- No
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 2.4GHz
- Display
- 3.2in colour LCD
- Noise
- ~52 dB
- Dimensions
- 280 × 130 × 70 mm
- Weight
- 0.9 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: Serious hobbyists maximising open-source hashrate per socket.
Strengths
- Highest hashrate available from an open-source design
- ~16.7 J/TH, still excellent
- Doubles a NerdQAxe++ without doubling the desk space
Trade-offs
- Loud enough to need its own room
- 160W is a real heat source in summer
- Costs well over twice a ++ for twice the hashrate — you pay a premium for the density
- Listed as coming soon at most vendors, and quoted prices vary wildly
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 →