A Nerd Miner does not earn anywhere close to 1 Bitcoin in normal use; at hobbyist hash rates, the expected payout is effectively near zero, with one discussion estimating it at “0.000000001 penny per year.”

What that means

  • A Nerd Miner is mainly a novelty/learning device, not a profitable Bitcoin miner.
  • Its chance of finding a block is extremely small compared with the Bitcoin network, where even a 1 TH/s device has been described as having about a 1 in 1,086,000,000 chance per block.
  • When someone does hit a full block, the reward can be huge, but that is a lottery-style event, not a typical earning rate.

Practical takeaway

  • For regular users, think of a Nerd Miner as tiny educational earnings, not income.
  • If your goal is to earn meaningful Bitcoin, you would need much more powerful hardware and low electricity costs.

Example

A solo miner recently earned a full block reward worth about $347,455, but that came from an extraordinary one-off block find, not from ordinary daily mining returns.

Bottom line

If by “make 1 bitcoin” you mean how long a Nerd Miner would take to earn 1 BTC, the practical answer is: so long that it is not realistic.