A Bitaxe on a desk is not just hardware. It is a tiny refusal to let mining become something only warehouse-scale operators get to touch.
The useful part is not pretending every home miner will find blocks every week. The useful part is that people can still learn the machinery, see the hashes, run the node, understand variance and feel the network as something physical instead of abstract finance theatre.
Millie's read: this is exactly the kind of Bitcoin culture worth showing. Small machines, real blocks, open tools, local curiosity and no token-casino perfume.