The 256 Foundation's Open-Source Mining Stack
In almost every layer of Bitcoin, open source is the default. Mining is the exception: one company dominates ASIC hardware and firmware, four pools direct ~75% of global hashrate, and miners hand multimillion-dollar operations to black-box hardware and software. The 256 Foundation is working to fix that. We'll walk the four pillars of the open-source mining stack end to end: Ember One (hash board), Libre Board (control board), Mujina (firmware), and Hydrapool (pool software). See the hardware in person: a sous vide cooker built from all four. We'll cover how to plug in: solo-mine sovereignly, test new hardware, file issues, contribute code, or show up on the forum. Mining is the last closed layer of Bitcoin. The 256 Foundation is opening it.
