What is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner - for information purpose

[Audrey Simmons]

I want to gather information for a thread, what is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner and what KWH does it use.

You can also help with that of average, one that can run in an apartment.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

You need to narrow down your question. Miners range from ones giving ~500GHS pulling only 15W that cost just $40 to those producing far more speed, pull more power with a far higher price.

[philipma1957]

I want to gather information for a thread, what is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner and what KWH does it use.

You can also help with that of average, one that can run in an apartment.

I would argue the 1tb bitaxe is good.

[Audrey Simmons]

You need to narrow down your question. Miners range from ones giving ~500GHS pulling only 15W that cost just $100 to those producing far more speed, pull more power with a far higher price.

The ones from ~ 6-10THS, pulling a minimum 50W, that cost within $100-$200

[Audrey Simmons]

I want to gather information for a thread, what is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner and what KWH does it use.

You can also help with that of average, one that can run in an apartment.

I would argue the 1tb bitaxe is good.

Too small, waste of energy.

The ones from ~ 6-10THS, pulling a minimum 50W, that cost within $100-$200, possible for that range?

[philipma1957]

I want to gather information for a thread, what is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner and what KWH does it use.

You can also help with that of average, one that can run in an apartment.

I would argue the 1tb bitaxe is good.

Too small, waste of energy.

The ones from ~ 6-10THS, pulling a minimum 50W, that cost within $100-$200, possible for that range?

No 6 th pulls 50 watts

Think 12-15 watts a th.

So maybe you can find a 6th unit at  85-100 watts ? I do know of any that exist.

As for a 10th at 50 watts also does not exist.

A 10th at 140 watts maybe. But it will be 850 dollars.


https://www.futurebit.io/apollo-3.

This is a 13 watt miner.

10-18th

And cost way more than you want.


Basically your gear simply does not exist.

[mikeywith]

The cheapest would be a broken antminer S5 that doesn't work and consumes 0 kWh a year.

Cheapest is a broad term, cheapest per TH? cheapest entire miner? with no specific information you will not get the correct answer you are looking for.

As for running them in the apartment, what is the restriction here? noise? power? space?

[ABCbits]

The ones from ~ 6-10THS, pulling a minimum 50W, that cost within $100-$200, possible for that range?

Looking at data on https://www.asicminervalue.com/efficiency/sha-256, there's no ASIC that meet your criteria. 50W with 6 TH/s means 8.3TH/s, but most efficient ASIC currently only have 9.5 TH/s.

IMO the closest one to what you're looking for is Bitaxe Supra Hex 701. It has 4.2 TH/s with 75W usage. From quick search, it has price range $180-$250 (without other cost).

[FP91G]

I want to gather information for a thread, what is the cheapest Bitcoin ASIC Miner and what KWH does it use.

You can also help with that of average, one that can run in an apartment.

All information about ASICs is collected on this website.
https://www.asicminervalue.com/

The Fluminer T3 (115 Th) and Canaan Avalon Q (90 Th), considered apartment ASICs, significantly outperform industrial ASICs in terms of cost per terahash. They pay for themselves over a long period of time.
The cheapest option is to buy a used S19 ASIC for $200 and you will have 90-100 terahash. But this is not an apartment option.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Personally I'd checkout those from GekkoScience https://www.gekkoscience.com/shop/ good prices, excellent quality.

[philipma1957]

Personally I'd checkout those from GekkoScience https://www.gekkoscience.com/shop/ good prices, excellent quality.

This is decent

https://www.gekkoscience.com/product/terminus-a2z-6th/

If he runs at 5th he would likely use 80watts

It is $380


This is cheaper

https://www.gekkoscience.com/product/gekkoaxe-gt-2xbm1370-solo-miner/

It can do 2.5th and is under 200

But no one makes 6th for 50 watts under 200


here is my under clocked bitaxe from geckoscience

I do about 13-15 watts and get about 0.90th
I point it at cksolo in hopes of really good luck

[Audrey Simmons]

I didn't mention, power supply is from a solar panel of 100 watt from not just a single panel. Bitaxe Supra Hex 701 with 4.2 TH/s and 75W mentioned by ABCbits is close to what i am asking.

I appreciate everyone contribution to the thread, information gathered.

[philipma1957]

I didn't mention, power supply is from a solar panel of 100 watt from not just a single panel. Bitaxe Supra Hex 701 with 4.2 TH/s and 75W mentioned by ABCbits is close to what i am asking.

I appreciate everyone contribution to the thread, information gathered.

so will you charge a battery to mine because a 100 watt panel will not run a 75 watt miner well.

https://www.gekkoscience.com/product/gekkoaxe-gt-2xbm1370-solo-miner/

this will work much better with a 100 watt panel


if you are doing 100 watt panel to charger to battery to power supply to 5volt  miner



you do not want to do 50 to 75 watt miner

a 30 watt miner like the link above is better.

how big is your battery 12v 100 amp or 12v 50 amp

[serchan]

One of the cheapest is Bitcoin miner from open source platform family like Bitaxe started. You can get one for 76 USD here https://oneminers.com/collections/bitcoin-miners/products/bitaxe-lucky-miner-1-2-th-s - they assemble them in USA and EU in oneminers service centers: Houston - USA, TX and Prague, Czechia, EU. So you get them from source. They cost 70 USD. This is basically like model S21 miner but it does not have 160 chips but only 1 or up to 4 based on version . So the same efficiency and hardware is there. Note it is more for lucky mining and experimenting but it can really hash and you would see results in pool . , It has peed 1.2TH. And full miner has about 210 TH/s .

[FP91G]

Bitaxe Gamma 601 – Build your own homemade Bitcoin miner
I consider such miners useless given the increasing difficulty of Bitcoin mining, but has anyone tried to build this ASIC themselves? If possible, you can get a cheap option without purchasing. It's easier to buy one ASIC, but for several devices it might be more profitable to make it yourself.

[serchan]

Bitaxe Gamma 601 – Build your own homemade Bitcoin miner
I consider such miners useless given the increasing difficulty of Bitcoin mining, but has anyone tried to build this ASIC themselves? If possible, you can get a cheap option without purchasing. It's easier to buy one ASIC, but for several devices it might be more profitable to make it yourself.

You can solder it at home. It has basically about 8 components you put toogether. But it is quite time consuming and prone to errors on first assembling + soldering. You will not save mostly any money because the most expensive part is the hashing chip itself or set of chips and this cost more than half of the miner so basically you are trying to save on few USD.