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<\/p>\nHome Bitcoin miners are everywhere now — silent desktop ASICs, open-source single-chip boards, app-controlled units that sit on a shelf. They all run SHA-256, but the coin you point them at decides whether you ever catch a block. This guide covers the hardware that actually makes sense at home in 2026, the real solo odds for Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash, and how to set both up on 2Miners.<\/p>\n
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A new generation of quiet, low-power SHA-256 miners has put solo mining back on the desk. A Bitaxe<\/strong> draws less power than a phone charger. A Canaan Avalon Nano<\/strong> is the size of a router and runs near library-quiet. You plug it in, point it at a pool, and you are mining the same algorithm as a warehouse full of Antminers.<\/p>\n The catch is scale. Your home miner does 1 to 15 TH\/s<\/strong>. The Bitcoin network does close to 1 ZH\/s<\/strong> — that is a billion TH\/s. Solo mining is a lottery, and on Bitcoin the jackpot odds are astronomical. But SHA-256 is not only Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH)<\/strong> uses the exact same algorithm, the same hardware, and the same block reward — on a network a few hundred times smaller. That one fact changes everything about home solo mining.<\/p>\n Three categories cover almost everything people run at home today. For a deeper breakdown of individual micro miners, see our Bitcoin solo mining guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forget “thousands of years.” The honest way to picture solo mining is a lottery ticket: most tickets lose, but a single win pays an entire block — 3.125 BTC<\/strong> or 3.125 BCH<\/strong>. The only question is how good your ticket is, and that comes down to one ratio: your hashrate versus the whole network.<\/p>\n Here is the chance of your miner finding a block in any given month<\/strong>, straight from 2CryptoCalc<\/a>:<\/p>\n Put it in plain lottery terms. A single Bitaxe aimed at Bitcoin has roughly a 1 in 900 million<\/strong> chance on each block — true moonshot territory, but the prize is a whole 3.125 BTC. Aim that same Bitaxe at Bitcoin Cash and your odds climb to about 1 in 60 in a year<\/strong>. A quiet Avalon Nano 3S sits near 1 in 10 per year<\/strong> for a BCH block, and an Antminer S9 around 1 in 4<\/strong>. Those are real, human-scale odds — and a winning block pays the full 3.125 BCH<\/strong> even if it is nearly empty.<\/p>\n Want even better odds on the same SHA-256 hardware? Younger networks like Quai<\/strong> give a home miner a far bigger slice of the pie. See our guide to mining Quai on 2Miners<\/a>.<\/p>\n Canaan’s Avalon Nano line is built for exactly this — managed entirely from the AvalonFamily<\/strong> app, no command line needed.<\/p>\n One word of caution that Avalon’s own screen gives you: do not change advanced frequency or voltage settings unless you genuinely know what you are doing. Stock settings are tuned for stability, and a bad overclock costs you uptime — which on a lottery miner means fewer tickets, not more.<\/p>\n Full reward, paid to whoever solves the block. Use the closest region:<\/p>\n Pool page: 2Miners BTC SOLO<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two things to know about BCH on 2Miners. First, you can take your payout in BTC, TON, or BCH<\/strong> — useful if you would rather accumulate Bitcoin while mining the easier network. Second, if you are pasting an old legacy “1…”<\/strong> address from an exchange, convert it to the modern “bitcoincash:”<\/strong> format with the official Bitcoin Cash Address Converter<\/a> first, or the pool will not credit you.<\/p>\n Pool pages: BCH SOLO<\/a> and BCH PPLNS<\/a>. For more on getting paid in a different coin than you mine, see BTC payouts for altcoin mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shared mining (PPLNS) pays you a steady trickle for the work you contribute — no luck involved. The problem at home is how small that trickle is. A Bitaxe mining Bitcoin in a shared pool earns on the order of 50 satoshis a day<\/strong> — a fraction of a cent. You will never feel it. That is not the pool’s fault; it is simply what 1 TH\/s is worth against a zettahash network.<\/p>\n Solo flips the deal. Same miner, same power bill — but instead of dust every day, you hold a ticket on the entire block reward. Most days nothing happens. Then one block lands and you collect all 3.125 coins<\/strong> yourself. That is the whole point: shared pays you a little, guaranteed; solo pays you nothing, or a fortune.<\/strong> At home scale, where “a little” rounds to nothing anyway, the lottery shot is the rational fun.<\/p>\n This is exactly why Bitcoin Cash is the smart home target. Same miners, same 3.125 reward, but odds hundreds of times better — a genuine chance at a full block while you sleep, instead of a number with no zeroes in front of it. Run your exact miner through 2CryptoCalc<\/a> to see both the shared payout and the solo probability for any hashrate, then pick your pool: BTC SOLO<\/a>, BCH SOLO<\/a>, or BCH shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n Follow us on X (Twitter)<\/a> and join our Telegram chat<\/a> to stay informed about new developments, miner alerts, and network upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home Bitcoin miners are everywhere now — silent desktop ASICs, open-source single-chip boards, app-controlled units that sit on a shelf. They all run SHA-256, but the coin you point them at decides whether you ever catch a block. 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Plug-in lottery miners (open-source)<\/h3>\n
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Repurposed datacenter ASICs<\/h3>\n
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Your Real Odds of Hitting a Block<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nAvalon Home Solo Mining in 3 Steps<\/h2>\n
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Settings for 2Miners Solo Pools<\/h2>\n
Bitcoin (BTC) SOLO<\/h3>\n
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) SOLO<\/h3>\n
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Solo or Shared: Where the Real Upside Is<\/h2>\n
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