THE MINING POD: How to Mine Bitcoin From Home in 2025
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The BitAxe craze has sparked a whole new generation of pleb mining.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nolan and Donny join us to talk about the BitAxe pleb mining revolution, home mining setups, BitAxe device modifications, the lottery aspect of solo mining, heating applications, and why these small miners are becoming the best educational tool for understanding Bitcoin mining from the ground up.
**Notes:**
• Gamma miners run at 1.2 TH/s using 15-20W
• Nerd QX++ delivers 4.8 TH/s stock performance
• BitAxe costs under $100 per terahash
• One in 260 million daily block chance
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:07 Nolan background
05:35 BX Gamma miner
07:10 Donny background
11:15 Typical pleb miners
19:26 Reasons for mining
23:06 Cleanspark
23:35 Heating Texas apartment
28:09 Personal mining setups
29:28 NerdQ Axe ++ (modification)
45:41 Hardware talk
55:35 Efficiency improvements
57:27 Parasite Pool
1:00:51 Wrap up
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the mining pod presented by CleanSpark. |
| 0:03.4 | For today's show, we're talking about PLEB mining specifically with Bidaxes. |
| 0:07.8 | We've got Nolan and Donnie on to talk about whether or not it makes sense to deploy a Bidaxe, |
| 0:13.2 | who is deploying Bidaxes, and why some miners are choosing to stack cash rate with Bidaxes |
| 0:18.9 | instead of deploying something like an S19J |
| 0:21.7 | pro or another Bitcoin miner model in their homes. |
| 0:25.4 | Nolan runs PlebSource with Marshall Long, and Donnie is the CEO of Fimojis, a member of |
| 0:30.7 | the Ordinals community who recently started sacking hash rate with bid axes. |
| 0:34.8 | So if you're curious about what bit axes are, how people are running them, |
| 0:38.2 | how you can get involved. This episode is for you. Hope you all enjoy. |
| 0:42.3 | You ever get into your buddy's car and think, dude, how do you live like this? There's half-eaten |
| 0:47.1 | Taco Bell on the console, a pile of garbage and fast food cups and bags, rumbling in the trunk, you look behind you under your seat |
| 0:56.8 | and you're pretty sure you saw something move, but you don't know what? Well, how do you think |
| 1:00.5 | your Bitcoin miner feels if you're not keeping on top of your filtration game? Y'all need to get |
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| 1:13.6 | And they're currently running a summer sale in their inventory, so now is the time to act. |
| 1:17.6 | Whether you need HEPA filters, new shipments or installations for your containers, or your large-scale mining facilities, retrofitted buildings, |
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