Houston-based Solo Satoshi has launched the Bitaxe Turbo Touch, an open source touchscreen Bitcoin miner designed for home users, highlighting a growing push for transparent, community-driven alternatives to proprietary mining hardware.
Houston-based mining hardware company Solo Satoshi has launched the Bitaxe Turbo Touch, a compact device aimed at hobbyists and home miners and described by the company as the most powerful open-source touchscreen Bitcoin miner currently available for home use.
The device reflects a growing push within the Bitcoin ecosystem to challenge proprietary mining systems through transparent, community-driven hardware designs.
Built on the open-source Bitaxe GT 801 platform, the Bitaxe Turbo Touch runs two open-source firmware layers: AxeOS, which manages mining operations, and BAP-GT-TOUCH, which powers the touchscreen interface. Software repositories, hardware schematics, and board layouts are publicly available under an open hardware licence.
Matt Howard, Founder and Chief Executive of Solo Satoshi, said the device was designed with verifiability in mind.
“We built this because we believe the tools people use to interact with Bitcoin should be fully verifiable. Every line of code between the ASIC chips and the pixels on the touchscreen is open source.”
The miner is powered by dual BM1370 ASIC chips — the same chips used in the industrial-scale Bitmain Antminer S21 Pro — delivering about 2.15 terahashes per second, with overclocked performance exceeding 3 TH/s and efficiency of roughly 18 joules per terahash.
A 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen displays real-time data including hashrate performance, Bitcoin price, block height and recently mined blocks, drawing network information from mempool.space.
Designed for home use, the device consumes about 43 watts of power, produces roughly 35 decibels of noise and is estimated to cost around $3.70 per month to operate at typical U.S. residential electricity rates.
