There is no single best home miner, which is why every list that claims one is useless to you. What there is, is a sensible order to buy them in.
Below are five machines we actually stock, arranged cheapest to biggest. Each is here because it wins something specific: the cheapest way in, the best value under $250, the quietest, the cheapest hashrate, the most efficient. None of them wins all five, and we have said plainly who should skip each one.
How to read the numbers
Terahash (TH/s) is how much work the machine does. More is better, and it is the only thing that changes your odds of finding a block.
Dollars per terahash is what that work cost you to buy. It is the honest way to compare two machines at different prices.
Joules per terahash (J/TH) is how much electricity it burns per unit of work. Lower is better, and it decides your running cost over a year rather than on day one.
Decibels decide where it can live. Under about 42 dB can share a room you work in. Over about 50 dB wants a garage or a basement.
Who should not buy any of these
If you need the machine to pay for itself, none of these will at most home electricity rates, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What you are buying is a real repeating shot at a whole block, coin that is yours from the moment it is mined, and in winter, heat you were paying for anyway. If that is not worth it to you, keep your money.
Most people do not start here. They start with a nugget miner off a marketplace, a little screen on a dock that teaches them what a hashrate is. That is a fine place to begin. This is the ladder after it, cheapest to biggest, and each rung wins a different thing. Prices and stock are read live from our store as this page loads.
BSB Bitaxe Gamma 602 (1.8TH/s)
- Hashrate1.8 TH/s
- Power32 W
- Per TH$44
- Noise45 dB
An open board, a heatsink and a fan, and 1.8 trillion guesses a second for under a hundred dollars. The unit most home miners cut their teeth on, and the one you learn pools and wallets on.
Skip it if you want the hashrate to count for something. At $44 per TH/s it is the most expensive terahash here by some way.
Hammer Miner BC04 (6TH/s)
- Hashrate6.0 TH/s
- Power100 W
- Per TH$40
- Noise50 dB
Six terahash for $239, which is more than three times the Bitaxe for three times the money, and it runs at 16.7 J/TH so it is genuinely efficient rather than just cheap.
Skip it if it has to live on your desk. At about 50 dB it wants a garage, a basement or a utility room.
Hammer Miner Thor P2 (10TH/s)
- Hashrate10.0 TH/s
- Power166 W
- Per TH$37
- Noise40 dB
About 40 dB, the quietest machine on this list by ten decibels, and the only one here that can genuinely share a room you work in. Ten terahash on two of the newest chips.
Skip it if you are buying purely on price per terahash. The 40T below is nearly half the cost per unit of work.
Magic Miner 40T
- Hashrate40.0 TH/s
- Power650 W
- Per TH$20
- Noise50 dB
About $20 per TH/s, the cheapest guessing speed on the whole site by a wide margin. Forty trillion guesses a second, power supply already inside, and roughly a 1 in 170,000 shot on any given day.
Skip it if you are tight on space or breaker headroom. It pulls 650 W and it is a full tower, not a board on a stand.
Prices, specs and stock are read live from our store as this page loads, so they are what we are charging today, not what we typed when we wrote this.