The 256 Foundation community hub. Announcements, new project ideas, open-source Bitcoin mining discussion, and anything that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the dedicated project categories.

Open-source Bitcoin mining firmware. No dev fees, no closed parameters. Run any hashboard, any control board. Read every line, modify without permission. Own your firmware. Built in Rust. GPL licensed.

Open-source Bitcoin mining hashboard reference design. Supports various ASIC chips. ~100W, 12–24VDC input, USB-C, 125mm × 125mm standard form factor. Fork it, build it, hack it. Part of the 256 Foundation open mining stack.

Open-source Bitcoin mining control board reference design. Can run a full Bitcoin node, Stratum server, and various hashboards. Swappable compute module — ARM, RISC-V, or more. No closed-source control boards. Not anymore.

Open-source, self-hostable Bitcoin mining pool. Solo and PPLNS modes. No custodied funds — payouts direct from coinbase. One-click deployable. Anyone can run their own pool. AGPLv3 licensed.

Rust library for unified ASIC miner management. One API to discover, monitor, and control Antminer, Whatsminer, Avalon, Bitaxe, Braiins, LuxMiner, ePIC, and more. Available on crates.io.

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