As an alternative you can join a solo mining block party which collectively gives us a greater chance of earning BTC if one of us mines a block. every couple weeks or so we also have hash parties where we donate some sats to increase hash power temporarily to increase our chances of getting a block reward.
https://solostats.ckpool.org/users/3Gk1GfP3bHA6M2ZzK5mHdqbWN1iNsqAenH
go to https://upendo.rigly.io/ then follow the instructions under “I have a miner” to adjust your bitaxe’s pool settings.