You miss the point of it: Despite the name, it's not mainly sold as a miner. It is an information station that also happens to include a low hash rate solo lottery miner...

Hi Skot,
  The ViaBTC's minumum withdrawal of BTC is 0.0001 BTC. But I won't suggest to join the BTC sharing pool at ViaBTC pool. It's better to join BCH/XEC sharing pool.

  BTW, Beagle will give you more fun than only mining. Ex: host a BD (best difficulty) competition among friends, depending on weather situation to buy BTC (suppose you plan to do DCA for buying BTC)....

Grifts include, but are not limited to, those not seen in this list.

• Demanded funds for “private tiers of support,” requiring payment for so-called “premium” access. It’s unclear if these tiers still exist, but they were in place at one time.
• Mocked and slandered respected Bitcoin contributors behind closed Discord channels while publicly pretending to show respect.
• Exploited the community’s goodwill under the guise of open-source development, funneling funds without transparency.
• Employed strong-arm tactics, implying that if you don’t pay them from your Bitaxe sales, you’ll be seen as illegitimate.

The Lack of Transparency

For years, members have demanded transparency regarding OSMU donations.The reality is, they take in far more money than they disclose and continue to grow their influence under false pretenses. Many members of the OSMU have raised the alarm for transparency, only to be ostracized or ignored. Members of the OSMU community who speak up face slander, backdoor rumors, and other politically motivated reprisals from the OSMU admins

Mine is dead so until sidehack contacts me about a return/repair/replace which I am willing to pay for its a brick.

To all be very careful with heatsink replacing as I have zero idea how I killed this unit.

i didn't want to withhold my two other bitaxe miners from you.
on the left you can see a Qaxe+ and on the right a NerdQaxe+. both miners are equipped with 4 1368 chips each, have a hash rate of ~2.5 th/s and consume 50 watts
the only difference is that the Qaxe+ miner is controlled via an rpi whereas the NerdQaxe+ is operated via its own axeos and has its own display
https://github.com/shufps/qaxe

But rock it does. Northbridge heatsinks are designed for chips with large packages and/or integrated heat spreaders, more like 25mm square than 8mm square. With that much area, a 2-point mount is okay because there's no leverage to rock it. A small chip in the middle might as well be a single point fulcrum. It's super easy to upset.

We're already designing an improved heatsink (more dissipative surface area on the fins) with 4-point M3 screw mounting, like what's been working on our stickminers for most of the last decade. Might have samples in the next week.

Phil, I think yours went out before I started lapping the heatsink underside. The ones we got in were not exactly smooth either, and the smoother and flatter the mating surface, the better.

As has been pointed out in other threads, the ESP32 micro-controller used is an extraordinarily poor choice for miners. It is made for use in very simple IoT devices such as sensors, thermostats, wearables, etc. that do not need good performance. Even the maker of them clearly states that. Even the best one only has 2 cores/threads which means that at best it can process hashes and do I/O without having to interrupt the processes provided the main and I/O threads are programmed to run independently. AFAIK the one used in the BitAxe has only 1 core...

All of that out of the way, does it work? Sure - but when there is a change of work and when it talks to the WiFi things slow down a lot. Because Skot is/was an IoT developer it makes some sense that he'd pick the ESP32 just because he is familiar with it. Unfortunately he did not know that you REALLY need a REAL multi-core/threaded CPU to ensure decent performance so the various processes running do not have to interrupt each other. Even the original RasPi-1 used a more capable chip.  ref https://www.elprocus.com/difference-between-esp32-vs-raspberry-pi/

FYI, while the 1st ones from Sidehack will be using the same micro he is already redesigning it to use the Pi Nano to eliminate the processing bottlenecks and also allow using USB along with hardwired LAN connections.
edit: struckout comment on redesign.

I am curious is the media blitz over a bitaxe finding a block has resulted in a tidal wave of new orders or not. I’d imagine that’s better advertising than could be bought and there’s a lot of folks dreaming of their own Bitcoin lottery win today. Anyone in the know care to share if this news did result in a tick up in sales?

I wonder if you could use bitmain firmware on an SD card

IAmGPIO and I did some playing with it day of and found out some fun facts. He's still parsing the wireshark output to get a sense of how much hashrate goes to dev fees.