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§01 · EVENT BADGES

3 editions attended.

🦒 ’26
Nairobi open source edtion
✴️ ’25
Durham NC local edition
👙 ’25
Austin mempool edition

§02 · TALKS & PANELS

On stage.

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talk · Nairobi 2026

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.

45m agenda ▶ watch repo
workshop · Nairobi 2026

Mining Illustrated feat. Mujina Open-Source Firmware

A guided walk through the full data path of Bitcoin mining, from the network down to the silicon and back. We'll trace exactly what moves between the Bitcoin network, a pool, and a miner, then dig into what each side does with it. We'll cover: What a pool receives from the Bitcoin network What a miner receives from a pool What a miner does on the inside What a miner returns to the pool What the pool sends back to the Bitcoin network To make it real, we'll run a complete Bitcoin network in the room and mine against it using Mujina Open-Source Mining Firmware on your laptop, with provided Bitaxe Gammas serving as hashboards. You'll see every layer of the stack running on hardware in front of you.

1h 30m agenda ▶ watch slides repo
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