Bitaxe Naja Duo Becomes First Open-Source Bitcoin Miner to Break 10 J/TH Barrier
The Bitaxe Naja Duo, set to ship next week, is the first open-source home Bitcoin miner to achieve sub-10 joules per terahash efficiency, running at 9.5 J/TH at stock settings. It is built around two BM1373 chips — Bitmain's 3nm SHA-256 ASICs from the Antminer S23 generation — which carry no public datasheet and required community reverse-engineering to operate. An ESP32-S3 microcontroller runs the open-source esp-miner firmware, handling chip initialisation, work distribution, nonce collection, and a self-hosted web interface called AxeOS. The dual-chip design introduced per-chip temperature monitoring and a 2-phase voltage regulator to manage heat and power delivery more precisely than earlier single-sensor boards. All performance metrics are accessible via a REST API, and the firmware is released under GPL-3.0, requiring any shipped derivatives to publish their source code.
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