Canaan · 2024
Avalon Mini 3
Home-friendly heater-miner: quiet enough for living spaces.
Hashrate37.5 TH/s
Efficiency21.3 J/TH
Wall power800 W
Coolingair
Noise~45 dB
Released2024
Energy $/day @ $0.10/kWh$1.92
The longer story
The Avalon Mini 3 is Canaan’s bet that a miner can live inside a home: heater-form-factor, dramatically quieter than rack units, and marketed as exactly what it is — a space heater that pays part of its power bill in sats. It made the home-miner-as-heater idea a shipping product rather than a forum hack.
It suits people who would run a resistive heater anyway and prefer one that stacks. The efficiency trails rack machines, which is fine: the comparison isn’t against an S21, it’s against a heater that earns nothing.
Quick answers
- How efficient is the Avalon Mini 3?
- The Avalon Mini 3 runs at 21.3 J/TH — joules per terahash is the number that decides mining profitability. Home-friendly heater-miner: quiet enough for living spaces.
- How much power does the Avalon Mini 3 use?
- Typical wall draw is 800 W, which at a reference $0.10/kWh costs about $1.92 per day in electricity. Scale linearly to your own rate — the electricity price is the whole business.
- Is the Avalon Mini 3 suitable for home mining?
- Yes — at ~45 dB it is one of the few units quiet enough for living spaces.
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