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I love that. I run my miner using DATUM all for open source. I actually might buy a bitaxe, but the only reason I’d do it is because I’m going to buy a hydro kit so I can learn about hydro cooling before scaling that up. There should be 10x the number of bitaxe like projects, I love the open source hardware aspect with Kicad files. Bitmain is the problem here and until @npub16l0c...yj9s releases a chip we will be stuck wasting effort reverse engineering their chips when we could be doing better things.
My retarded highly uninformed take is that buying sats is a better financial investment for me personally. I guess distribution of hash benefits the network and further secures my sats even if just marginally. Idk. I always pretend I’m gonna run a node and buy a miner and then I never do.
My node running adventures have led me down some really interesting rabbit holes. Interesting for me anyway, since I don't have any computer/programming/linux background at all. I've learned a lot on the journey. Running a Bitaxe (or 3 πŸ˜†) is fun and supporting open source development while enjoying another hobby is enough incentive for me to justify the expense to myself, lol. But as @ShiShi21m said, setting a node up is super easy now. My DIY Start9 just works without me having to think about it. Not like one I had going on bare metal a few years back that i kept on tinkering with.
Nothing! got onecas soon as i discovered they exist. Great project. I am off grid with little solar, so i run my nerdminer 24/7 and bitace from sunup to sundown, will improve that setting. Learning not only about #bitcoin and #mining but also about power usage, solar and batteries. Big win!