A Kickstarter for ASIC Miners

Why the next interesting home miner might not come from a catalog — and how you can back it before it exists.

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The Magic Miner 40T — a proposed 40 TH/s solo miner designed to live on a desk, not in a warehouse.

Have you ever gone looking for genuinely new ASIC mining hardware — and found the same familiar machines being sold under different names?

That's not your imagination. The ASIC market has traditionally offered buyers very little influence. Manufacturers decide what to build, production happens behind closed doors, and customers hear about a machine only when it's nearly ready to ship. By then there's no way to support an interesting design early — or get a better price for taking that chance.

We're experimenting with a different approach: a Kickstarter-style launch platform built specifically for mining hardware. (Here's the full announcement.)

What the launch platform is

Instead of listing only finished retail products, each campaign introduces proposed hardware while it's still being built. A campaign page shows the specifications, the development schedule, photos or renders, the people behind the project, the known risks — and a public comment section where you can ask about firmware, pools, power draw or shipping, and get answers from the team.

You can follow a machine as it moves through stages:

1. Initial design
2. Engineering and implementation
3. Prototype / sample validation
4. Production
5. Shipping

A conventional ASIC listing gives you a hashrate, a power figure, a price and a shipping estimate. A campaign page tells you why the machine is being built, what makes the design different, and how far along it actually is. It brings visibility to a process that normally happens entirely out of public view.

How the pricing works

The central idea is phased pre-order pricing.

When a new concept launches, you can reserve a unit before it reaches retail. The earlier you commit, the bigger the discount — because you're taking more of the uncertainty. As prototypes get validated and production firms up, later waves open at higher prices, until the finished miner lists at full retail.

• Early supporters get the largest discount.
• Later phases cost progressively more as risk falls.
• Finished product ships at full retail price.

It's a straightforward trade. Comfortable backing an early-stage design? You pay the least. Prefer a proven, finished product? Wait — you'll pay more, but you'll know exactly what you're getting.

It also does something for the whole ecosystem: it tells manufacturers whether people actually want a machine before they commit to a production run.

The honest part

Now the section most launch posts would skip.

A pre-order is not risk-free just because it sits on an established storefront. Early-stage hardware can slip its schedule. Designs change. Read the exact campaign, refund and warranty terms before you order — every campaign carries a full refund any time before your unit ships, and if the design changes in a way you don't like, that refund is the point of it existing.

Why can we run this credibly? Because our team regularly visits the manufacturers and their factories in person — inspecting where the hardware is developed, meeting the people responsible for production, and pressure-testing what each factory can realistically deliver. Those relationships are how buyer feedback gets to the engineers, and how funding stays connected to real development milestones instead of promises.

The first campaign is live: Magic Miner 40T

This isn't theoretical — early hardware is already on the platform.

The Magic Miner 40T is a proposed 40 TH/s desktop Bitcoin solo miner: a vertical tower for the home, ~800W at the wall, ~20 J/TH efficiency, ~50 dB, with a built-in 94%-efficient PSU and dual-fan cooling. Find a block solo and the entire reward is yours — no pool cut, no custodian.

Sample validation — the stage a campaign page lets you actually watch instead of hear about afterward.

The wave pricing in action (campaign page):

• Wave 1: $649 — about $18 per TH/s
• Wave 2: $749
• Wave 3: $799 (retail)

For context, that Wave 1 price-per-hashrate undercuts comparable home miners on the market today — the Avalon Q runs roughly $20/TH and the BSB 30T about $27/TH. First samples are assembling now, with production expected in the 4–6 week range — and the full-refund-before-shipment rule applies.

Also newly listed: the THOR P2, a two-chip BM1373 design targeting ~10 TH/s on a new operating system, at $449 with an expected August 15, 2026 ship date. Machines like these — new chips, new configurations, new firmware, home-first form factors — are exactly what the platform exists for.

A home for the next great miner

Where machines like this end up: the home shelf, next to everything that came before it.

"Kickstarter for ASICs" is the simplest way to explain the idea, though it's our own platform with its own purchasing terms. The real promise: manufacturers get a place to test ambitious ideas, and miners get a way to discover and back those ideas before the rest of the market hears about them.