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Great write-up! I’m currently planning a 10kW hybrid setup with a Fronius inverter and BYD batteries, but I'm torn between going full 'plug-and-play' or trying to optimize the efficiency like you did.
Could you share the link or the name of that home mining community you mentioned? I’m particularly interested if anyone there is running newer S21 units with dynamic power scaling tied to their solar output. I want to avoid 'thermal stress' on the chips while still capturing every satoshi from the sun. Thanks!
This vaguely rhymes with what I recall from Luke Smith's path in the days of yore. If you don't know his stuff, it might be worthwhile to check it out.
Scattered among his many linux videos, he's also got a few opening up on his motivations for leaving academia and settling somewhere in the boondocks.
One thing to keep in mind with investing a lot more into developing your own land and costly things like energy systems, is that it makes it easier for the system to coerce you.
Depending on how much you pissed it off, or plan to do so, you may want to consider attaining a higher degree of location independence.
Or in terms of The Sovereign Individual: you may need to minimize the state's potential return on violence.
Thank you for this comment. It truly means a lot to me. Comments like this are exactly the reason I want to start writing more and putting my thoughts out there.
I absolutely agree with you. I am seriously thinking in terms of going off grid and embracing minimalism. I also agree about mobility. Without it, we become too tied down and more vulnerable than we realize.
And Bitcoin is exactly the point where we both align. It offers the possibility of reducing the power of the state over the individual and increasing personal sovereignty. That is definitely something we should be striving toward.
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in my first post.
I don’t run a node.
Since I don’t want to mine in a regular pool and receive tiny payouts that are basically meaningless for my Bitaxe hashrate, my goal is to mine truly solo to actually contribute and embrace the full variance.
The issue is that without running my own node, I’m not a “real” solo miner. So I’ve been considering using pools that support solo-style mining, like CKPool or Public Pool.
I wouldn’t mind running my own node. The real problem is that I don’t currently have a dedicated machine for it, and I don’t want the additional upfront cost right now. I’d rather deploy every bit of this annoying fiat I earn each month directly into Bitcoin all in.
So for now, I’m weighing the tradeoff between ideological purity (running my own node and mining fully solo) and practical constraints.
Yea absolutely i want star solo mining. But i don have a node, so i want use publick pool bitaxe for solo mining.
I totally get your skepticism regarding small-scale ROI. Mining with a $99 Nano is a great educational tool, but as you said, the math is tough.
That’s exactly why I’m looking at this from a 'Sovereign Infrastructure' perspective rather than just a mining hobby. The solar system is being built primarily for home resilience (10kW hybrid + storage). The miner (S21) is there to act as a dynamic load to monetize the energy that the grid would otherwise force me to 'waste' or sell for peanuts.
It’s not about virtue signaling; it’s about practical energy arbitrage. If I’m already paying for the 'insurance' of having a solar house, why not let the excess energy secure the network and stack some sats in the process? I'd rather have my roof 'circle jerking' with a miner than giving free electrons to a utility company.