POD256

A Bitcoin podcast focused on open-source Bitcoin mining, energy, and freedom tech. Recorded weekly at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN. Co-hosted by: @econoalchemist, @skot9000, and @tylerkstevens

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POD256 | Bitcoin Mining, Freedom Tech, and Awesome Tangents

Episodes (109)

Wednesday 110. April Fools, Real Progress: Open Firmware, Open Pools, and the Path to Decentralized Mining
Mar 25th 109. Hashrate Heat, Home Sovereignty, and the Open-Source Mining Stack
Mar 18th 108. From Mixers to Miners: Why Samourai Matters for All of Bitcoin (and What You Can Do)

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining, Freedom Tech, and Awesome Tangents

Apr 1, 2026
1 hours
28 MB

In this lively April 1 episode of POD256, we cut through the April Fools noise to share real updates from the open-source Bitcoin mining front. We preview the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, celebrate renewed grants for the 256 Foundation’s four core projects (Mujina firmware, Libre Board, Ember One hashboard, and Hydra Pool), and discuss our all-Bitcoin treasury experiment paying developer grants in sats based on cost basis. We dive deep on unlocking Bitmain control boards, porting Mujina to Amlogic-based Antminers, model guardrails, and running AI-assisted development workflows. We also highlight the power and resilience of open source—from LLM clie...

POD256 | Bitcoin Mining, Freedom Tech, and Awesome Tangents

110. April Fools, Real Progress: Open Firmware, Open Pools, and the Path to Decentralized Mining

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