Hardware Miners vs. LuqEE’s Professional Setup: Why Renting Hash Power Makes Sense • LuqEE

What Are Hardware Miners?

Hardware miners are specialized computers designed to perform the repetitive hashing calculations required by proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.

In Bitcoin’s early days, mining could be done with desktop CPUs and GPUs. Today, mining is dominated by ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits)—machines purpose-built to run the SHA-256 algorithm with maximum efficiency.

These devices range from small, home-friendly units to industrial, data-center-scale systems.

Home-Friendly Miners (GH/s)

Consumer mining devices are designed for ease of use and quiet operation.

Typical characteristics:

Hash rate: ~2–3 GH/s
Power usage: ~500 W
Noise level: under 40 dB

Examples:

VolcMiner D1 Mini (Litecoin/Doge): ~2.2 GH/s @ 500 W
ElphaPex DG Home1: ~2.1 GH/s

While accessible and quiet, these devices produce only a few billion hashes per second, making their chances of finding a Bitcoin block effectively negligible.

Professional Mining Rigs (TH/s)

Industrial ASIC miners operate at an entirely different scale.

Typical characteristics:

Hash rate: hundreds of TH/s
Power usage: thousands of watts
Cooling: immersion or advanced liquid systems

Examples:

Bitmain Antminer S21e XP Hyd: 860 TH/s
Bitmain Antminer S21 XP+ Hyd: 500 TH/s
Auradine Teraflux AH3880: 600 TH/s

These machines require specialized facilities, but they outperform consumer miners by five orders of magnitude.

The Reality of Mining Hardware

Even with powerful hardware, mining remains probabilistic.

A 480 GH/s Bitaxe Ultra has roughly a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of finding a block per day
A 2.3 PH/s setup (~5,000× faster) still only achieves about 1 in 2,800 odds per day — roughly once every 8 years
Industrial farms operating at 100 PH/s or more may find blocks every few months

Because of these long odds, most miners:

Join mining pools, or
Use hosted or cloud-based mining services

The Cost of Owning Hardware

Running ASICs comes with ongoing challenges:

Fan noise exceeding 70 dB
Heat management and cooling infrastructure
Rising electricity costs as network difficulty increases
Frequent obsolescence as newer models outperform older hardware
No guaranteed profitability

Mining at scale is operationally complex and capital intensive.

LuqEE’s Professional Setup

LuqEE removes these barriers by operating a data-center-scale mining farm.

Our infrastructure consists of hundreds of modern ASICs delivering petahashes of compute power. Instead of buying and maintaining hardware, you subscribe to a plan that allocates a share of our total hash rate.

Key advantages:

Even our lowest plan provides 100× more hash power than a typical 1 GH/s home miner
No noise, heat, firmware updates, or maintenance
Enterprise-grade uptime and monitoring
Managed operations handled end-to-end by LuqEE

Built-In Performance Boosts

LuqEE includes two unique advantages:

Overflow Mining When our farm has excess capacity, additional hash power is automatically distributed across all active plans at no extra cost.

Mining Power Hours At scheduled times, we temporarily ramp up output to deliver tens of thousands of gigahashes—up to 65,000× the output of a typical home miner—significantly increasing the probability of capturing a block during those periods.

A Smarter Way to Mine

With professional equipment, shared infrastructure, and managed operations, LuqEE transforms hardware mining from a noisy, high-maintenance hobby into a streamlined service—delivering competitive hash power without the operational burden.