A small open-source ASIC born from the community to bring mining back to individuals and strengthen the distribution of the Bitcoin network.

This tutorial was created with the support of DTV Electronics, which provided a Bitaxe Gamma (DTV Electronics Edition) for the creation of this content.

The Bitaxe project was born in 2023 as an open-source initiative led by Scott9000, an active developer in the Bitcoin community and hardware hacker focused on mining distribution. The idea behind the project is simple: take an ASIC chip designed for industrial miners and make it usable in a home-friendly, open-source, and customizable format.

Bitaxe was developed publicly on GitHub, with progressive contributions from the community, and quickly became a reference point in the so-called home mining movement.

Launched in 2024, the Bitaxe Gamma represents the evolution of a family of devices designed to return mining to individual users. It’s not a tool to get rich, but an educational and philosophical project.

The device mounts a single ASIC chip, originally designed for AntMiners, on a custom-designed board equipped with a small cooling fan. Both the software and hardware follow open-source principles, with the sole exception of the ASIC chip, which remains a closed-technology component.

rom an economic standpoint, prices range between €100 and €200 depending on the store. On the DTV Electronics website, the price of a Bitaxe Gamma (DTV Electronics Edition) is €101.01.

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