Mine with your GPU.On Bittensor, or in a browser.

1. 1

   Check the hardware

   Chutes has tested three setups end to end: eight H200, eight B200 or eight RTX Pro 6000 cards in one server with an Intel TDX CPU, running Ubuntu 26.04. You also need one server without a GPU, with at least 4 cores and 32 GB of RAM, for the control plane.

   Every server needs a fixed public IP, and the GPU servers must be bare metal. Runpod, Vast and similar rentals won't work.

   Tested setups, in Chutes' sek8s host tools

2. 2

   Make a wallet and put TAO in it

   pip install bittensor
   btcli wallet create -w miner -H default

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   That makes a coldkey, which holds your TAO, and a hotkey, which is your miner's identity on the subnet. btcli shows a recovery phrase for each only once: write them down offline, because they're the only way back in.

   Then send TAO for the registration to your coldkey's address, which btcli wallet list shows. Never send TAO to a hotkey address. Check it arrived:

   btcli wallet balance miner

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   Wallets and keys, Bittensor docs

3. 3

   Set up the control plane

   The control server runs Chutes' miner API, database and scheduler. Ansible sets it up from your own computer. Get the miner repo and a copy of its inventory:

   git clone https://github.com/chutesai/chutes-miner
   mkdir -p ~/chutes
   cp chutes-miner/ansible/k3s/inventory.yml ~/chutes/inventory.yml

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   Put your control server and hotkey_path: ~/.bittensor/wallets/miner/hotkeys/default in that file, and your chart settings in ~/chutes/values.yaml, as the README explains. Then install Ansible and its collections, and run:

   cd chutes-miner/ansible/k3s
   ansible-playbook -i ~/chutes/inventory.yml playbooks/site.yml

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   Chutes miner README

4. 4

   Register on subnet 64

   The price floats, so check it first. The dry run shows exactly what you'd pay, without paying.

   btcli query burn --netuid 64
   btcli tx burned-register --netuid 64 -w miner -H default --dry-run

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   When the price looks right, register for real:

   btcli tx burned-register --netuid 64 -w miner -H default

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   Register once: Chutes says a second slot only competes with your first, so add GPUs to one miner instead. Don't publish an axon either, because Chutes doesn't use one. A new slot is only protected for a while, so have your GPU servers ready to go. You can also watch the price on taostats.

   Mining guide, Bittensor docs

5. 5

   Turn each GPU server into a confidential VM

   Chutes' sek8s tools install the TDX kernel and attestation services on each GPU server, then boot the confidential VM that runs your share of Chutes. You'll need an API key from Intel's Trusted Services portal.

   git clone https://github.com/chutesai/sek8s
   cd sek8s/ansible/host
   cp inventory/hosts.yml ~/chutes/my-inventory.yml

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   List your GPU servers in ~/chutes/my-inventory.yml and set chutes_hotkey_path: ~/.bittensor/wallets/miner/hotkeys/default. Then:

   ansible-playbook -i ~/chutes/my-inventory.yml playbooks/setup.yml \
     -e pccs_api_key=<your-key> -e pccs_password=<your-password>
   ansible-playbook -i ~/chutes/my-inventory.yml playbooks/launch.yml

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   The VM has no SSH, and its disk only unlocks when the hardware proves it's running Chutes' approved image. So nobody, you included, can see the prompts it serves.

   End-to-end miner guide, Chutes' sek8s

6. 6

   Add each GPU server to your miner

   Once a VM reports ready, run this once per GPU server, from the computer that holds your hotkey. It checks the server's attestation and offers its GPUs to the validator.

   pip install chutes-miner-cli
   chutes-miner add-node \
     --name <gpu-server-name> \
     --validator <validator-hotkey> \
     --hourly-cost <usd-per-gpu-hour> \
     --gpu-short-ref h200 \
     --hotkey ~/.bittensor/wallets/miner/hotkeys/default \
     --agent-api http://<gpu-server-ip>:32000 \
     --miner-api http://<control-server-ip>:32000

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   The name is the server's name in your inventory. Use b200 or pro_6000 for those cards. The README lists the validator's hotkey.

   Adding TEE nodes, Chutes miner README

7. 7

   Watch it earn

   Subnet 64's validators score the compute you served over the last 7 days, so a new miner starts slow. Rewards arrive on your hotkey as subnet 64 stake every tempo, about 72 minutes by default, and you can unstake them into TAO.

   btcli wallet overview -w miner

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   Subnet 64 on taostats

The registration price

Paid in TAO from your coldkey. It jumps with every registration and decays while nobody registers, so check it live, with btcli or on taostats. The burned part is never refunded, even if your miner is dropped later.

Hardware and power

Eight data-center GPUs in a TDX server and a control server, bought or rented, with power and bandwidth on top. They cost the same whether or not your miner earns.

Earnings move

Your share depends on how much compute you serve next to every other miner. It's paid in subnet 64's alpha, and what that's worth in TAO, or in dollars, changes all the time.

You can be dropped

Subnet 64 has a fixed number of slots. Once your immunity period ends, the lowest earner is the first pushed out when someone new registers, and coming back means paying the price again.

No promises

Inferno doesn't run subnet 64, doesn't pay Bittensor miners, and can't promise you'll earn anything.

How it ties to Inferno

The same miners as Bittensor chat

Pick Bittensor in Inferno's chat and Chutes answers on subnet 64 miners like these, inside the same confidential hardware.

TAO on Robinhood Chain

TAO reaches Robinhood Chain through Chainlink's CCIP bridge, so Inferno can take it for credits once the site's operator turns TAO payments on.

Who pays whom

The Bittensor network pays subnet 64 miners, in alpha. Inferno pays browser miners 70% of each answer, in USDG, when the site has payments on.

1. Chutes miner README: TEE-only network, control plane, registration, adding nodeshttps://github.com/chutesai/chutes-miner
2. sek8s host tools: tested GPU setups and Ubuntu 26.04https://github.com/chutesai/sek8s/tree/main/host-tools
3. sek8s end-to-end miner guidehttps://github.com/chutesai/sek8s/blob/main/docs/end-to-end-miner.md
4. GPU names Chutes acceptshttps://github.com/chutesai/chutes-api/blob/main/api/gpu.py
5. Chutes docs: mining on Chutes (last updated in 2025)https://chutes.ai/docs/miner-resources/overview
6. Bittensor docs: mininghttps://www.bittensor.com/docs/guides/mining
7. Bittensor docs: the registration pricehttps://www.bittensor.com/docs/guides/mining/burn
8. Bittensor docs: wallets and keyshttps://www.bittensor.com/docs/concepts/wallets
9. Bittensor docs: emissionshttps://www.bittensor.com/docs/concepts/emissions
10. btcli now ships in the bittensor packagehttps://github.com/opentensor/btcli
11. Subnet 64 on taostatshttps://taostats.io/subnets/64
12. Lium, subnet 51: the GPUs it takeshttps://docs.lium.io/providers/architecture
13. Lium validator: which idle GPUs earn emissionshttps://github.com/Datura-ai/lium-io/blob/main/neurons/validators/src/services/const.py
14. IOTA, subnet 9: compute requirementshttps://github.com/macrocosm-os/IOTA
15. TAO on Robinhood Chain over Chainlink CCIPhttps://github.com/TalismanSociety/talisman/pull/2555