Best Home Miners You Love

What’s your go-to home miner? Would love to hear your picks and why you like them. I’m all ears!

there was a nano 3...but it's been a long time...with all these melted usb c cables...I'll miss the 3s too

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The Avalon Mini 3 is what I have currently as a home miner, and so far it is running quite ok (knock the wood). Small down sides are annoying "rattle noise" from the heat output protection steel net in "Mining"-mode and the lack web GUI (you can only meddle it with the android phone app "Avalon Family"). I hope the hardware lasts a little better than in Antminer R4 I had in the past. They had few hashboards going broken. I think Avalon has it best currently in 1kW ish range. For other home miner sizes GekkoScience are known to be good and handy.

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The rattle noise is more noticeable when there is no movement around your home, mostly at night, I am someone who likes reading books in the night closer to my bed and I have this miner running on a shelf next to my table, that noise is so annoying, I thought it was my own mini 3 doing the weird noise but I feel a bit at ease reading your comment, it is so annoying. I remember returning few Graphics card back to Amazon because of their crazy coil whining things but I can't return my mini 3 miner because I don't purchase through amazon but straight from China.

FutureBit Apollo II. I also considered the Canaan Avalon Q, which I believe is the better hardware choice, but FutureBit is easier to buy from because it's based in the US.

Yeah, avoiding the heavy duty is always a better choice.

mini 3. best home miner! works as a heater in winter and mines btc!!

Yeah, you said it! It works in winter

I just updated the Mini 3 to the newest fw (from June 2025) and it has some improvements, including a web browser GUI! Canaan, you should maybe more promote the FW updates for these Home series gear.

Yeah a gui on the web hardwired via eth cable is pretty much a must for me. I do DIY with bitmain boards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR9NQyfi2wk&t=1s Simple reason is I get to use the epic controller with these builds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elFBWMKimmM All hardwired eth cable

which FW is it? 25011701_3f53b19 i still need to login via qr code via mobile

Wow you bomb me both here and via pm... I'll just paste what I said in pm..... Hi! https://www.canaan.io/support/file_download Firmware Avalon Mini3 Release 2025061801 It does, since it has the web browser GUI. But functions there are limited and sadly it doesnt have all same things than the android app. The android app also works with this new fw, so I recommend you to try the update

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The Avalon Q is the best home miner in my opinion, due to low noise, good efficiency and can be run off 120v. Very happy with my purchase. I have mine running upside down to keep the heat away from the psu running on standard very quiet, 78.75 TH/s  running on super still quiet but louder 92.63 TH/s  (when I say quiet It's nothing like the fan noise I use to get from my Bitmian S9)

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Home mining is fun if you have a way to not pay for grid power or if your grid power is ridiculously cheap. Here is the latest mini miner that I got delivered at my home few days ago, I am adding more to my collection as we are heading into 2026, I might end up with 10 pieces of this NerdAxe++ in no time. The only Canaan miner I have running right now is the Avalon Q and I don't plan on getting another, even on this one I have to run max when the sun is up and go lowest when the sun is down. Free energy making my fingers feel itchy.

Thank you for sharing. By the way, you want the miner to operate in high-performance mode during the day and automatically switch to low-performance mode at night, right?

To safe my backup {Lithium battery} from running down very fast I have to run on low performance mode for the night, it's like a asic miner made specifically for my needs.