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An orange six-sided die above SOLO MINER and SOMEONE HAS TO WIN, a lottery-minded tee for home miners.
- Unisex tailored fit, sizes XS–3XL
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About this design
An orange outline six-sided die, drawn as a tilted cube with pips on the visible faces, sits above SOLO MINER and SOMEONE HAS TO WIN in two lines of bold white capitals, with SOLO MINER set larger. There is no Bitcoin symbol on this design.
Fabric, fit & print
| Material | Airlume combed & ring-spun cotton |
|---|---|
| Fit | Unisex tailored crew neck |
| Printed to order | |
| Sizes | XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL |
| SKU | BC-SOLOMINER |
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The story
Behind the Solo Miner tee
Solo mining is a long shot with a hobbyist heart: one small machine, one very big lottery. A single die sits above the line every solo miner tells themselves, which is that somebody has to win.
Solo mining means working on a block alone instead of in a pool, so you either find the whole block or nothing. Small open-source machines such as the Bitaxe have made it a home hobby. It does pay off now and then: in July 2024 a Bitaxe miner on a solo service found block 853,742, a very long shot at the time. Odds for any single miner stay tiny, which is why the dice fit.
Wear it to a meetup where people compare hash rates, or to the desk where a small miner hums. It also reads as a general lottery joke, so friends who have never heard of mining will still smile at the die.
Questions
About this design
What is solo mining?
It is mining without a pool. You work on your own candidate block, and if you find a valid one, the whole reward is yours. If you don't, you earn nothing for your effort. Pools smooth things out by splitting rewards, while solo mining is all or nothing.
Has a tiny home miner ever actually found a block?
Yes. In July 2024, a Bitaxe, a small open-source miner running around 3 terahashes per second, found block 853,742 through a solo mining service, as reported by NoBS Bitcoin. It was considered extremely unlikely, which is exactly the spirit of the shirt, and no result is guaranteed.
Why a die rather than a pickaxe?
A pickaxe says steady work, but solo mining is closer to rolling dice. Each hash is another roll, and nearly all of them miss. The tilted die matches the slogan about someone having to win, and it keeps the drawing playful instead of technical.
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