The 256 Foundation's Open-Source Mining Stack
summary
Two manufacturers control roughly 97% of ASIC supply and pools concentrate ~75% of hashrate; the project publishes four open components: Ember One 100 W hashboard (~3.6 TH), Libre Board control board built around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module, firmware Mujina aiming to be the “Linux kernel” for miners, and Hydrapool (Rust pool software). Demonstrations include a working sous‑vide miner that cooks steak and a fundraiser that solo‑mines a live block, both successful.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Centralization in Bitcoin mining
- 9:22Foundation’s mission
- 16:32Open-source mining stack projects
- 28:39Demonstrations of mining systems
- 33:12Call to action
- 34:41Q&A: Simulators and hardware
- 37:32Q&A: Africa’s mining role
- 40:28Q&A: Open ASIC chips
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