Absolutely, and it uses older chips.

The main thing about it is that you can run it quietly at home and it looks nice.

It's a niche product, definitely not to get the best hashrate per money. There are way better options for that, but they of course are extremely loud and look too industrial for some people.

nullama

Apollo BTC is very expensive given its hashrate.

mudbloodvonfrei

bitcoin

Is decentralizing bitcoin mining using USB miners a pipe dream?

USB Miners have recently mined a block, so there's that. A lottery ticket.

Compac F are the best ones in the market, but of course there's no comparison to a normal miner. The good thing is that you can run them quietly or completely noiseless.

There's also the [Apollo BTC](https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may) if you want to play around with this at home, they can be setup to be also very quiet.