About this episode

The hosts discuss their experiences from a recent Vegas conference, including a significant grant win and various open source mining topics.

In this week’s catch-up, Skot, Tyler, & econoalchemist sit down with each other after a whirlwind couple of weeks and get the full down low from the Vegas conference—panels, debates, demos, and a surprise $100,000 grant win. They dive into the spirited on-stage debate over open source mining, why chip closed-ness doesn’t invalidate open source hardware, and how community-driven, transparent tooling remains our North Star. Highlights include Schnitzel’s battery-powered “DoomAxe” portable miner (yes, it plays Doom), rapid-fire integrations with Proto Fleet, and a Mario Kart tournament that filled a 3,000,000-sat prize pot. They also share details on winning MARA Foundation’s community vote and how the funds will extend runway for the four core open-source pillars: Ember One Hashboard, Mujina firmware, Libre Board control board, and HydraPool—plus the crucial work of storytelling, docs, and community building around them. 256 Foundation unveils the revamped 256foundation.org website and a self-hosted Discourse forum for discoverable, scam-resistant support and collaboration (forum.256foundation.org), along with Mujina dev calls to channel contributor energy productively. Then…

People in this episode

Hosts: Skot, Tyler, econoalchemist

Topics covered

• open source mining
• community-driven tooling
• Bitcoin mining
• Vegas conference
• DoomAxe demo
• MARA Foundation grant
• home mining

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• open source
• mining
• DoomAxe
• MARA Foundation
• 256 Foundation
• community building
• Telehash

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MARA Foundation, 256 Foundation

Products: DoomAxe

Places: Vegas, Austin

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