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People will learn the same things (so basically how to run cgminer and use a BTC pool/solo pool) with a Bitaxe, or a Gekkoscience product. But at least, you will have a chance so submit a share able to find a block, at least you will have a "BTC solo loterie". Why would we use a x kh/s miner not able to submit shares to most of the pools? It is like mining BTC with a CPU, no one would do that in 2024. Nerdminers aren't cheap if we compare with Bitaxe. I prefer to spend some sats to buy a product from sidehack (gekkoscience) or to skot (bitaxe), at least they are working on something useful for home miners and hobby miners, useful for the BTC community.
People will learn the same things (so basically how to run cgminer and use a BTC pool/solo pool) with a Bitaxe, or a Gekkoscience product. But at least, you will have a chance so submit a share able to find a block, at least you will have a "BTC solo loterie". Why would we use a x kh/s miner not able to submit shares to most of the pools? It is like mining BTC with a CPU, no one would do that in 2024. Nerdminers aren't cheap if we compare with Bitaxe. I prefer to spend some sats to buy a product from sidehack (gekkoscience) or to skot (bitaxe), at least they are working on something useful for home miners and hobby miners, useful for the BTC community.
I have to admit that I'm a total noob when it comes to mining, but your explanation above makes a lot of sense as far as I understand. Given that there are similar (even better?) projects out there and that we're not able to translate everything, it seems a good idea to focus in other topics.
Of course, if anyone wants to reply to paid2 and share a different take on nerdminer, it's Ok.
I not, will try to find and propose a topic myself before Sunday. If other AOBT-ers make different proposals in the meantime, we'll choose the best one.
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