Braiins introduces BMM 100 Mini Miner

The Czech Bitcoin mining company Braiins is known for its oldest mining pool, which has mined more than 1.25 million Bitcoin since 2010, as well as its own software for ASIC miners, which enables easy configuration and efficient control of mining devices.

Now Braiins has launched its own lottery miner, the BMM 100 Mini Miner, which the company presented at BTCPrague in Prague, Braiins' home city. This makes Braiins the first mining hardware to be manufactured in Europe and is a new competitor to BitAxe, Nerdminer and others in the solo and home mining market.

The display measures around 6x4 cm and has a resolution of 320x240 pixels. It can be used to display mining data such as the current hashrate and temperature. The display can also be used as a clock or Bitcoin price display.

Some models can already be purchased on the BTC website for the equivalent of just under 225 euros. Otherwise, you can pre-order the BMM 100 Mini Miner on the Braiins website for 199 US dollars. With every order, you also receive the Bitcoin mining manual and a mining glossary free of charge, which are otherwise available for 14 euros each.

If you compare the BMM 100 Mini Miner with similar competitor products, it becomes clear that Braiin's first home mining device does not really offer any major advantages in terms of size, price, volume and energy consumption/efficiency. For example, the Bitaxe 401 Supra has a hash rate of 600 to 700 GH/s (overclocked even up to 900 GH/s) at 14-18 watts, costs around 190 US dollars (and falling) and is also quieter than Braiins' Mini Miner at around 30 decibels. The Bitaxe 401 Supra also uses more efficient mining chips with 17.5 J/TH. The various models of BitAxe open-source miners cover a range from around 450 GH/s at 10 watts to around 8 TH/s at 230 watts - depending on the type and number of mining chips.

The crowdfunding project Avalon Nano 3 from Canaan Inc. is also cheaper at 120 euros and, with 4 TH/s at 140 watts, is also more powerful and somewhat more energy-efficient than the BMM 100 Mini Miner.

The home mining market has continued to develop in recent times. More and more people are interested in the mining process and are engaging in solo mining as a hobby. With the BMM 100 Mini Miner, the Bitcoin mining veteran Braiins has now also entered the business to enable people to participate in the Bitcoin network. Although the Mini Miner is somewhat more expensive than comparable models and also consumes more energy, it is just as suitable for experimentation or integration into photovoltaic systems as its competitors. It will be interesting to see if and when Braiins will launch further models on the market.

However, the probability of finding a block with such mining devices is very low. However, a new player on the home mining market will of course help to get more people interested in the mining process and Bitcoin and drive forward the decentralization of the Bitcoin mining network. Happy Bitcoin mining!