The Bitaxe Mini Asic Touch is open source, which encourages its continuous development.
Touch has a weight of around 1.1 kilograms and does not exceed 14 centimeters long.
2025 began with new mini ASIC (integrated circuit of specific application) proposals for Bitcoin mining (BTC) at home. Since traditional mining teams imply a more expensive initial investment, mini devices offer an interesting variant to undermine BTC with fewer resources.
One of these new Mini Asic is the Bitaxe Touch, in the development phase and will be available in the “soon” market, according to Solosatoshi, the responsible company that is dedicated to developing portable Bitcoin mining devices for home.
Touch offers one Tactile interface and real -time monitoring functions. Its dimensions are 13.97 centimeters (cm) long, 8.89 cm high and 8.89 cm wide, while its weight is approximately 1.1 kg, according to the data of SOLOSATOSHI.
Additionally, Cryptonotics reported other Mini Asic presentations, such as those of Canaan and Braiuns companies.
Touch stands out for its touch screen
The Bitaxe Touch not only allows mining, but acts as a real -time monitoring station using an 800 × 480 pixels LCD touch screen.
Through your screen, the user can monitor multiple parameters, including the real -time price of Bitcoinextracted from the Mempool API.Space. Information about the Mempool can also be visualized, which allows to know the status of the transactions waiting within the Bitcoin network.
In addition, the Mini Asic Touch screen shows data referring to Bitcoin miningfrom the difficulty and the global hashrate of the network, to the commissions paid by the users, the height of the block and the remaining blocks for the next halving of Bitcoin.
Accessing that information while the user is undermining is useful since it allows to decide whether to continue or stop mining at high or low profitability.
On the other hand, its interface offers a voltage and total consumption perspective in watts, the mining power in GH/s (gigahas per second) and energy efficiency (in watts by terahahes), an important fact to evaluate the performance of the equipment In relation to its electrical consumption. It also has a thermal indicator to detect overheating.
Touch also shows key information such as the Stratum URL of the Bitcoin mining pool to which the user is connected and the difficulty of the pool, which determines how many calculations are needed to find a block. In addition, the rejection rate, indicating the efficiency of the connection with the pool.
The Stratum URL is the direction of the mining pool server to which the device is connected. Stratum is a mining protocol that allows communication between miners and poolsending mining work and receiving answers about the blocks found.
According to the online site of Bitaxe, His mini ASIC only operate under the Stratum protocol (and its new Stratum V2 version). Therefore, it is not possible to use these pools devices that use other mining protocols, such as Datum, operated by Pool Ocean.
Ultimately, in your Home Screen show date, time and day of the week, as well as an integrated Bitcoin Net API, according to SOLOSATOSHIto know news linked to Bitcoin.
Bitaxe Touch Mini Asic and Consumption Power
The Bitaxe Touch uses the ASIC BM1370 chip of the Bitmain S21 Pro. It is a specific mining chip that allows a 1 TH/S hash. (Terahasos per second) in normal mode. His processing capacity can increase to 1.6 TH/Swhich improves performance, but can increase energy consumption and temperature.
Touch has a 23 watt electric consumptionwhich is widely lower compared to traditional ASICs that, although they offer much more power, consume hundreds or thousands of watts. At the same time, Touch is compatible with voltages of 120 to 240 watts, allowing its use in different countries without additional adapters.
This Mini Asic uses with the operating system Axeosa Firmware Designed specifically for Bitaxe devices, used in Bitcoin mining.
The Bitaxe Mini Asic are open source
One of Touch’s most relevant qualities and Bitaxe’s teams is that They are open source. This implies that source code is available so that any person uses, modifies and distributes.
That encourages the collaboration of the community and the continuous improvement of the hardware and of software of these mini Asic. Open source projects allow developers to share their knowledge and create more robust and efficient solutions.
“We design and develop open source mining hardware that anyone can use, modify and improve, contributing to the decentralization of Bitcoin mining.”
Bitaxe repository.
In conclusion, although the Mini Asic Touch of Bitaxe is still in the development stage, its characteristics would position it as an interesting option for Bitcoin mining at home.
However, the operation of the Mini Asic Touch and its performance must be evaluated once it is put on the market.
