Why Do My Two Bitaxe Gammas Have Different Best Shares? Understanding Bitcoin Mining Luck
At Plebsource.com, we’re passionate about empowering pleb miners—hobbyists and home enthusiasts like you who are joining the Bitcoin mining revolution with a Bitaxe in hand. We love hearing your questions, as they help us all grow in this anarcho-capitalist mission to decentralize Bitcoin’s hashrate. Recently, a customer reached out with a great question: they have two Bitaxe Gammas, both set up identically and running on the same network, but they’re seeing widely varying “best submitted shares” on their mining pool dashboards. One Bitaxe might have a best share difficulty of 1,000, while the other’s at 10,000—why the big difference? The short answer is: it’s just luck. The longer answer dives into the random yet probabilistic nature of Bitcoin mining, often likened to rolling dice, and how this variance drives the network. In this blog, we’ll explain what “best shares” mean, why your two Bitaxes are showing different results, and how Bitcoin mining luck works. By the end, you’ll see why this variance is normal, expected, and even a beautiful part of what makes Bitcoin mining so unique. Let’s roll the dice and break it down.
