Solo Satoshi Introduces Bitaxe Turbo Touch, an Open Source Touchscreen Bitcoin Miner
A small Texas mining hardware company is releasing the most powerful open source touchscreen Bitcoin miner currently available to home users.
Houston-based Solo Satoshi has announced the launch of Bitaxe Turbo Touch, a compact device designed for hobbyists and home miners that delivers more than twice the hash rate of other touchscreen miners in its category.
According to a note shared with bitcoin magazine, This unit produces approximately 2.15 terahashes per second (TH/s).
The product is built on the open source Bitmain GT 801 platform and features dual BM1370 ASIC chips, the same chips used in the industrial-scale Bitmain Antminer S21 Pro. The company says the chip allows the device to achieve an efficiency of about 18 joules per terahash. During testing, the device reportedly reached over 3 TH/s when overclocked.
The miner includes a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen that displays real-time network and mining data. Eight rotating displays display metrics such as hashrate performance, Bitcoin price, current block height, and recently mined blocks.
Network information is obtained from mempool.space, a widely used blockchain data explorer.
Matt Howard, founder and CEO of Solo SATOSHI, said the company prioritized transparency when developing the device.
“We built this because we believe the tools people use to interact with Bitcoin should be fully verifiable,” Howard said in a statement. “Every line of code between the ASIC chip and the pixels on the touchscreen is open source.”
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The miner runs two open source firmware layers. One is AxeOS, which manages mining operations, and the other is BAP‑GT‑TOUCH, which drives the touchscreen interface. Both software repositories, along with hardware schematics and board layouts, are published under open hardware licenses.
The device consumes approximately 43 watts of power and produces approximately 35 decibels of noise, closer to the noise level of a quiet room than a traditional industrial mining rig. Solo Satoshi estimates that on a typical U.S. household electricity bill, the miner costs about $3.70 per month to run.
The Bitaxe Turbo Touch uses an ESP32-S3 microcontroller to connect through a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi module, and configuration is handled through a browser-based dashboard. The company says each unit is assembled in the United States and tested for hashing performance before shipping.
SoloSatoshi positions this device in comparison to other compact touchscreen miners such as the Brainins BMM 101. The company says its model has a significantly lower cost per terahash, about $151 per TH compared to about $299 per TH for Brainins devices.
The announcement also highlights the growth of a niche market within the Bitcoin mining industry focused on open source hardware. While most large-scale mining operations rely on proprietary equipment from major manufacturers, a small community of developers and enthusiasts are pushing for transparent designs that can be modified and audited.
Satoshi Solo said he worked with the open source Miners United community to develop parts of the device, including an accessory communication protocol that allows developers to build additional displays and hardware integrations.
The company’s involvement with touchscreen miners dates back to late 2024, when it collaborated on the initial concept of Bitaxe Touch. When later versions of the device shipped with closed-source firmware, Solo Satoshi decided to create its own completely open-source replacement.
The company says its open-source Bitcoin miners have generated more than $1 million in total verifiable block rewards, including several highly publicized solo mining successes in recent years.
This article, Solo Takeshi Introduces Bitaxe Turbo Touch, an Open Source Touchscreen Bitcoin Miner, first appeared in Bitcoin Magazine and was written by Micah Zimmerman.
