There's a $35 USB stick sitting on my desk right now that could technically pay out $200,000 in Bitcoin overnight. No catch. No middleman. Just you, a tiny device, and a shot at 3.125 BTC sent straight to your wallet.

That's the idea behind solo Bitcoin mining, and the Nerd Miner 2 from BitcoinMerch is one of the cheapest ways to try it.

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Now, back to the Nerd Miner.

This thing is tiny. USB stick tiny. You plug it into any USB port, connect it to your wifi, enter your Bitcoin wallet address, and it starts mining. Setup takes maybe 5 minutes. Power consumption is so low you'll never see it on your electricity bill.

Here's what makes it different from regular mining. Most miners join a pool, where thousands of machines combine their power and split rewards in small amounts. The Nerd Miner doesn't do that. You mine completely alone. If you solve a block, you get the entire 3.125 BTC sent directly to your wallet, no split, no platform taking a cut.

The tradeoff is that the odds are low… like really really low. One unit runs at 70 KH per second, which isn't a lot of hashrate. You can check your exact odds at solochance.org. If you want to improve them, BitcoinMerch also sells a hub kit that runs 7 Nerd Miners together, bumping your combined hashrate to 490 KH. The hub is what I got because it looks so cool. I wanted a neat-looking Bitcoin mining toy for my desk or shelf, and this fits the bill. It's the kind of thing people immediately ask about when they come over. I didn’t get this because I’m likely to make a bunch of money with it (I’m not). I think that’s the wrong reason to buy one. I got it because it looks cool AND it actually does something. We’ve all bought things that JUST look cool JUST because we like them.

At $35 for a single unit, the math is simple. You spend more on a dinner out. The novelty alone is worth it for anyone into Bitcoin, and the fact that your odds of a $200,000 payday are not zero makes it genuinely fun to keep running.

Over 20 people solo mined Bitcoin in the past year. The odds are low, but they aren't zero.

Get the NerdMiner 2 here:
➤NerdMiner 2: https://a.ndy.fyi/NerdMiner2-BTCmerch
➤7x Miner Combo: https://a.ndy.fyi/NerdMiner2Combo-BTCmerch
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And if you want the full setup walkthrough, a deeper dive, and a look at the hub in action, watch the full video here: