How to set up a Bitaxe for solo mining

💡Solo mining a Bitaxe, in plain terms

A Bitaxe (Gamma, Supra, Ultra) is a tiny open-source Bitcoin ASIC. Pointed at a true-solo pool it mines for itself: every share is a lottery ticket on the whole block reward, and if your Bitaxe is the one that solves a block, the Bitcoin network pays the full reward straight to your address. No pooled payouts, no shared splits. The catch is honest: a single Bitaxe (~1–3 TH/s) has very long odds, so think of it as a cheap, power-light lottery ticket — which is exactly the point of solo mining.

🛠️The four AxeOS fields

In the AxeOS web UI go to Settings and set these, then save and restart:

The three things people get wrong: (1) put your own Bitcoin address in Stratum User — that is who gets paid; a plain worker name is rejected in true-solo mode. (2) Add .bitaxe (or any label) after a dot to track multiple rigs separately. (3) Do not put stratum+tcp:// in the URL field — AxeOS wants just the host.

🔌Which port for which device

SoloLuck runs difficulty-tiered ports: each has a minimum (floor) difficulty, connections start at 4,000 or the floor (whichever is higher), vardiff raises difficulty when your share rate runs hot, and firmware can request lower (mining.suggest_difficulty), never below the floor:

• :3335 Nano — minimum difficulty 1, for CPUs and ESP32 nerdminers.
• :3333 Lite — the default for a Bitaxe and other small ASICs.
• :8081 Standard — for an S9-class or stacked setup.
• :4334 Pro — high-hashrate S19/S21 or rented hashrate.
• :3334 TLS — encrypted, same as Lite but over a valid Let's Encrypt cert.

🔑bc1q vs bc1p, and confirming it works

Use a native segwit bc1q… or taproot bc1p… address you control (a hardware wallet receive address is ideal). After you save the settings, AxeOS should show Connected and a rising share count within a minute. To confirm from our side, open https://sololuck.io/users/your-address — your worker and its hashrate appear there once the first share lands. The live pool view is at /status.

🌏Does it matter that the pool is in Southeast Asia?

For block odds, no — those are identical on every solo pool on Earth. What a nearby node helps with is stale shares: when a new block appears, a far-away pool sends you fresh work later, so a few of your shares are wasted on the old block. SoloLuck's Jakarta node is single-digit milliseconds from much of SEA (~6 ms from Indonesia vs ~250 ms to a US pool), which trims that waste. See the data on latency and the honest comparison.

🔧The Gamma specifically (BM1370)

The Bitaxe Gamma is the one most people buy now, and the best single-chip pick. It runs the BM1370 — the same 3 nm silicon as an Antminer S21 Pro — doing about 1.2 TH/s for roughly 15–25 W (~15–18 J/TH, the most efficient Bitaxe you can buy). It uses the :3333 Lite tier like any Bitaxe.

One tuning trick is worth knowing: the BM1370 will usually hold 600 MHz at the stock 1150 mV — roughly a 14% free hashrate gain with barely any extra heat. Past that you pay real watts and degrees per step, so raise frequency 25 MHz at a time, keep HW errors under 0.5%, and aim for an ASIC temp of 50–65 °C. Watch the VR (voltage-regulator) temp too — it is the reading people forget and tends to fail first. None of this changes your odds in a way that matters; it is a few percent more tickets, not a different game.

Running something even smaller? The NerdMiner solo pool guide covers the ESP32 class — same pool, Nano port (:3335).

⛏️Ready to start solo mining?

Paste your address and copy the config from /setup, watch the pool on /status, and check every claim on /verify. Mine to your own address — that is what makes it truly solo.

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