Independent hardware bench · est. 2022
Home mining and local-AI rigs, measured for real-world use.
I run all this on my own bench - I'm a bit of a fan of solo miners, I've an Umbrel Bitcoin node ticking away, and the GPUs in a rig that used to mine Ethereum now run a local-AI setup I put together myself. I write it all up as I go, expensive mistakes included.
- BTC network hashrate
- 894 EH/s
- BTC price
- £62,000
- Next difficulty retarget
- -
- Solo odds at 15 TH/s
- ~1 block / 1,100 yr
Yes, really - and that's the fun of it. A Bitaxe is a lottery ticket you get to build yourself, and loads of us run one just to be in the game. I'll show you how to do it properly.
Live from the Bitcoin network
run the odds →- BTC price
- £47,500
- 24h
- Hashrate
- 894 EH/s
- network
- Difficulty
- 1.27e14
- retarget -
- Fear & Greed
- -
- index
- Fees
- -
- on-chain
- Block
- -
- halving -
Live from mempool.space, CoinGecko and alternative.me. The full live dashboard, with year-long trend charts, is here.
Bitcoin at home
Bitaxe, NerdQaxe, Avalon Nano, Apollo. Lottery and solo miners, node stacks, and a fun little corner of Bitcoin you can run from a shelf. I'll show you what to buy and how to get it humming.
Local-AI rigs
The GPUs, VRAM and builds that run large language models on your own hardware, benchmarked on my own dual-GPU bench.
Instruments
The numbers nobody selling you the hardware wants to show
Two calculators running on live network data, so you can see the numbers before you spend.
Home miners
Where to start with Bitcoin at home
GPUs for local LLM
Where to start with a local-AI rig
From the bench
Latest write-ups
The bridge
One GPU, two lives.
The RTX 3090 that stopped making sense for mining after the Ethereum Merge is now the best-value 24GB card for running local models. The waterblocks, copper mods and BIOS flashes I wrote up for miners? They work exactly the same on an AI rig.
Hardware & mods// gpu lifecycle
2021 mining rig · 120 MH/s
2022 the merge · gpu mining ends
2026 local llm · 24 GB VRAM