I have taken Mr Wright's ramblings seriously for once and have now become not just an irrelevant full node operator (with a Lightning node able to zap micropayments here, but Wright always seems to dismiss that) but I am now a miner too, thanks to a combination of Umbrel and Bitaxe. Currently mining with a hash rate of 618.2 GH/s!
I need to get on this combo
I was very surprised how easy it was to set up the Bitaxe. I've had my Umbrel running for ages but thought adding a miner (it's only a toy really, no chance of actually mining any blocks) would be too complicated. Turns out all you have to do is plug it in and point it in the right direction. I then added the Public Pool app to my Umbrel and pointed it there instead of the default, and it works fine.
