256 Foundation

Building the open-source Bitcoin mining ecosystem.

501(c)3 public charity.

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

Thank you all! TELEHASH #4 is now complete.

No block during the livestream - but you can continue supporting the foundation with hash. Will make sure to read out supporters on POD256.

https://t.co/xDOV89ljvM

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

Learn more about Gridpool here:

https://t.co/1eLp7pGBLt

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

Amazing podcast with the one and only @keegreil

Hear his take on the issues around Bitcoin mining centralization and what he is doing to solve it with Gridpool on the latest episode of POD256:

https://t.co/Eo5gh519Tn

[Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) @OsloFF]

During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, @skot9000, a freedom tech engineer and contributor to the Bitaxe project, argues that the future of Bitcoin mining will look nothing like today. The current model, dominated by closed-source and proprietary machines built for on-grid industrial mining, is just one application, not the one that will last.

Through his work with the 256 Foundation, a nonprofit supporting solo Bitcoin mining, Skot is helping build open-source tools that let individuals participate in mining directly. That matters for freedom because mining is the physical layer of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.

[Tyler Stevens ⚡️🔥 @tylerkstevens]

If you have a @Braiins mini miner, you’re about to have a Bitcoin miner that can play DOOM.

FOSS Mujina firmware from the @256FOUNDATION enables modification to your liking!

Awesome @unknown_aadhi

What do you think? Mining shares give more ammo?

[bitcoin++ @btcplusplus]

JUST IN 🦒: Ryan Kuester (@ryankuester) of 256 Foundation to speak at bitcoin++ Nairobi, open source edtion this coming June 17-19, 2026

~~The 256 Foundation's Open-Source Mining Stack~~

Join us 👉 https://t.co/T2Wna1QZUU

[Caylon @CoSatoshi821]

Mining has never felt so sovereign

Unraid > Docker > Hydrapool < @Braiins Hashpower
#BIP110 #RDTS @256FOUNDATION @jungly

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

@alphazeta @ElektronEnergy Appreciate your strong support! 🫡

[Rapha Zagury @alphazeta]

@ElektronEnergy will be back for the next one. Would love to see more miners join us.

@256FOUNDATION is doing the work miners should want done keeping the mining stack open, permissionless, and harder to capture.

Supporting it should be obvious self-interest for anyone who mines Bitcoin.

[Caylon @CoSatoshi821]

@jungly @256FOUNDATION What I'm loving most is the ability to run it as an operator and allow others to mine to your instance with PPLNS. It's perfect for solo miners getting together and combining hash.

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

Thank you for your contributions!

1. @ElektronEnergy
2. @NiceHashMining
3. @Schnitzel
4. @FutureBit
5. @megawatthq
6. @tronsington
7. @RiglyMining
8. https://t.co/M9CQSWCZrc
9. @Exergy_LLC
10. @compass_mining

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

TELEHASH #4 was our biggest yet.

No solo block was found, but the community connected a peak of 2.49 EH/s to Hydrapool and contributed ~30.81 ZH of total work over the 6.5-hour event.

Check out the top ten leaderboard!
https://t.co/szeAKxjZIq

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

@jungly is the man you want to thank.

[Caylon @CoSatoshi821]

Holy schlit @256FOUNDATION
Hydrapool is friggin badass

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

@bygregorr @MARAFoundation_ @skot9000 Not at scale

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

Over 2.5 EH/s and 2200 unique workers pointed Hashrate to our 4th fundraiser. Thank you to all our contributors!

Stay tuned for TELEHASH #5 in January.

[MARA Foundation @MARAFoundation_]

Two days ago, 256 Foundation (@256FOUNDATION) hosted their 4th “Telehash” fundraiser, where contributors point mining hash towards the organization’s pool—and test their luck at mining a block.

When blocks are mined successfully, the profits are used to fund 256 Foundation’s open-source mining projects—including fully open-source firmware, hash and control boards, pool software and more.

Want to support the 256 Foundation?

You can do it by pointing some of your hashrate to their pool, which is always up for ongoing contributions.
More info on how to do that here: https://t.co/YISRZbsRSf

You can also donate directly at https://t.co/dEbhXfsYT7

[Tyler Stevens ⚡️🔥 @tylerkstevens]

TELEHASH events are an excellent way to raise money to support important projects like @Op_Bitcoin and the @256FOUNDATION.

Energy donations!

Best part, the infrastructure (pool, dashboard) are open-source and available to all.

Make sure to tune in. Always fun!

[256 Foundation @256FOUNDATION]

@isabelfoxenduke @skot9000 @tylerkstevens @econoalchemist Thank you for helping us share this story! The mining status quo is about to change 🫡

[Isabel Foxen Duke⚡️ @isabelfoxenduke]

“The acceleration of growth and development in Bitcoin mining is going to go absolutely vertical.”

Could not be more bullish on the potential impacts of open-sourcing the mining tech stack for ALL miners, big and small🔥

Big thanks to @skot9000 @tylerkstevens @econoalchemist and the @256FOUNDATION for the incredible work you're doing to make mining development open for all!

[MARA Foundation @MARAFoundation_]

MFTV #3: OPEN SOURCE MINING MATTERS | with @skot9000 of @256FOUNDATION

YouTube: https://t.co/gzBYnew8L1

Bitcoin is, critically, an open-source project—with most of the development community building on Bitcoin in an open-source way.

If Bitcoin's codebase were not open-source, it would no longer be permissionless, trustless, or censorship resistant. Its position as "cypherpunk" money is firmly dependent on that fact that anyone can find, review and use its code.

The mining industry, however, typically operates with a different attitude. A small handful of companies make all Bitcoin miners—including chips, firmware, hardware, etc—with all information about how these machines work behind a heavily guarded wall.

In this episode of MFTV, @skot9000 creator of the first fully open-source ASIC (BitAxe) and boardmember of the @256FOUNDATION sits down with @isabelfoxenduke to share how the open-source mining revolution is growing—and why the mining industry is poised for "absolutely vertical growth" as its tech stack opens up for the world to build on.

[Heather Larson @WriterHeatherL]

The Bitcoin mining community came together yesterday and, though we didn’t hit a block for @256FOUNDATION, fun was had, things were learned, and mining grew stronger across the miles 🧡⛏️

[jungly @jungly]

We ran Hydrapool yesterday for @256FOUNDATION 's telehash. Internally hydrapool uses @p2poolv2 's stratum and accounting libraries.

Hydrapool is rock solid! Check out the performance on an AMD EPYC 9R45 aws ec2 instance.

P2Poolv2 release coming soon too.