THE MINING POD: Mining For The Streets With Bitaxe
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🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
There’s a small, hobbyist Bitcoin mining unit that’s getting Bitcoin plebs fired up. We’re learning more on this week’s Mining Pod.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Skot from the Bitaxe project and Econoalchemist from Pod256 join the show to talk about open-source Bitcoin mining hardware.
From hitting a Bitcoin block during a mining charity event to developing standardized hash
Boards, we talk about Bitcoin mining hardware. Learn about their Skot and Econoalchemsts take on the Bitmain monopoly and attempt to make Bitcoin mining accessible to everyone.
Notes:
• BitaxeOpen Source Project
• 256 Foundation Mission
• Breaking Mining Monopolies
• Standardized Hash Boards
• DIY Mining Innovation
• Hardware Democratization
Timestamps
00:00 Start
01:59 Telehash & hitting block
05:26 Intros
12:51 256 Foundation mandate?
16:02 BitAxe users
18:53 AmberOne project
22:08 Designer BitAxe culture
27:24 Mining centralization
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| 0:49.7 | Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. |
| 0:51.2 | On today's show, we are joined by Scott, the instigator of the bidX movement and Econo Alchemist, a privacy advocate and Bitcoin miner. What do all these words mean? We will get into it on today's show. We recorded it down at the National Energy and Mining Summit at Bitcoin Park. Thank you to the Bitcoin Park team for making this show possible. In today's conversation, we really dove into pool template construction, the BitX movement, |
| 1:15.3 | diversifying who is making A6, and then privacy as well within Bitcoin mining. |
| 1:21.0 | We started the conversation off kind of midway through a point talking about the Pod 256 Telehash, |
| 1:26.6 | where they were able to mine a Bitcoin |
| 1:28.7 | block during essentially a fundraising run with Pod 256 Foundation. So congrats to them |
| 1:36.1 | and definitely take a look at Pod 256, which I think nicely compliments the mining pod. |
| 1:43.6 | Thank you to today's sponsor. You'll hear from |
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