You Can Actually Win: Fully Electric's 15 Years of Solo Mining

October 23, 2026

Most people in this hobby are still chasing their first block. Fully Electric has found five. He found them on Bitcoin Cash, from home, with the same kind of small miners a lot of you have sitting on a shelf right now. But his story starts way before any of that, back when one Bitcoin cost about as much as a gumball.

“The feeling was amazing!! I felt just like the early days hitting BTC blocks.”

15 years in 7 lines

2010Hears about Bitcoin at work. It is worth 6 cents. He thinks it is a waste of time.
2011Buys 50 Bitcoin at $21, in person. Watches it crash to $2. Holds anyway.
2013Sells all 50 at $890. Buys his first ASIC miner, an Avalon A1.
2014Runs a fleet of Bitmain S1s, then S3s and S5s, solo mining Bitcoin.
2021Turns an old S17 Pro into a home miner and runs his own solo pool.
2024The Bitaxe Gamma comes out. He starts buying every home miner released.
2026Points the home fleet at Bitcoin Cash. Five blocks found, the first and fifth by one NerdOctaxe.

2010: the 6 cent coin

He first heard about Bitcoin in September 2010, when he found out someone at his workplace was mining it. He asked questions, and the guy walked him through this new digital currency worth about 6 cents. His honest first take was that it was a waste of time.

By June 2011 it had climbed to $21, and that got his attention:

He did his research and put $1,000 in.
That bought him 50 Bitcoin, in person, because that is how most trades happened back then.
The whole wallet lived on a 320GB hard drive.

“Just my luck, Bitcoin took a nose dive all the way down to around $2 per coin at the end of 2011. I felt so ripped off, but I decided to hold.”

He tuned out the forums and moved on with his life. Then in December 2013 he saw it on the news: Bitcoin was worth $1,000. He sold all 50 around $890 and was thrilled to be out. In his words, “needless to say I sold way too early, knowing what I know now.”

2013 to 2021: from the A1 to his own pool

Instead of chasing the price, he went back to Bitcoin Talk and read up on the new ASIC miners. He decided mining was the safer bet. Here is how the fleet grew:

December 2013: his first ASIC, an Avalon A1.
Early 2014: a fleet of Bitmain S1s, then S3s and S5s, all solo mining Bitcoin.
The S5 era: the time between solo blocks got so long that he moved to pool mining.
2015: USB Avalon Nanos and Block Erupters, to get the family involved.
Winter 2021: an old S17 Pro turned into a single hashboard home miner, plus MiningCore as his own solo pool, for more hashrate and some heat for the house.
2022: the same treatment for an S19 Pro and a new S19j Pro.

NerdQaxe miners sitting on top of an old Antminer — The old guard and the new: NerdQaxes riding on an Antminer he has had for years.

He never cared much for the early Bitaxe Max. Then the Bitaxe Gamma came out in mid 2024, and since then he has bought just about every home solo miner that has been released.

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The fleet today

No warehouse, no server room. Side tables, nightstands and a shelf by the 3D printer.

A Bitaxe and a Thor P2 on a side table behind a Buddha statue — Side table setup. Quiet enough for the living room.

Thor P2 screen showing 6.9 TH/s — Thor P2 at 6.9 TH/s.

A water cooled Bitfortun BS2 at 7.1 TH/s on a nightstand — Water cooled Bitfortun BS2 on the nightstand.

Bitfortun BS2 screen showing 7.1 TH/s — 7.1 TH/s on a nightstand.

Hammer Thor P2 at 6.9 TH/s on the living room side table.
Bitfortun BS2, water cooled, 7.1 TH/s on the nightstand.
Bitfortun BS1 and Hammer BC04, about 5 TH/s each.
NerdQaxe++ units, one of them water cooled.
Bitaxes, including one at 7.1 TH/s next to a case he 3D printed himself.

A Bitfortun BS1, a white touchscreen miner and a Hammer BC04 side by side — Three small miners, about 5 TH/s each.

A water cooled NerdQaxe++ next to a 3D printer — Water cooled NerdQaxe++ next to the 3D printer.

Close up of a BLOCK FOUND screen on a home miner — Block found. From a home miner, on a home pool.

A Bitaxe at 7.1 TH/s next to a blue 3D printed honeycomb case — A Bitaxe at 7.1 TH/s and a 3D printed honeycomb case he made himself.

2026: Bitcoin Cash

After years without a Bitcoin solo block, in February 2026 he added Bitcoin Cash to his home pool. Within two months, on April 11, one of his home miners found its first Bitcoin Cash block. And it was not a one off. His little home fleet kept going, and he has now found five Bitcoin Cash blocks from home.

The best part: the first and the fifth came from the same machine, a rev2.2 NerdOctaxe sitting at home.

Block 1: block 946307, April 11, 2026
Block 5: block 973746, October 20, 2026
Both found by: one rev2.2 NerdOctaxe, solo, on his own home pool

He filmed the fifth one. Here it is in his own words:

Follow him on X at @Fully_Electric.

“I will always and forever solo mine BTC and now BCH!”

Why Bitcoin Cash gives home miners a real shot

Same miners. Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash both use SHA256, so the same miner works on both.
Smaller network. Bitcoin Cash has a tiny fraction of Bitcoin's hashrate, so a home miner's chance at a block is a few hundred times higher per terahash.
A block you can actually find. It is worth less, about 3.125 BCH, but it is realistic, which is exactly what Fully Electric proved.

He runs his own MiningCore pool, which takes a node and some setup. If you would rather skip that part, Harlo Pool is a Bitcoin Cash pool built for home miners: point your miner at it, enter your BCH address, and you are chasing the same block.

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