Bitaxe is the world's first fully open-source Bitcoin ASIC miner — open hardware, open firmware, open everything. Anyone can build one, modify it, or manufacture it. Bitaxe devices bring solo Bitcoin mining back to individuals with a device that fits in your hand.

Bitaxe is the embodiment of what the 256 Foundation supports: open-source hardware and software that breaks the proprietary mining monopoly and puts ASIC mining back in the hands of individuals.

OSMU is a global community of developers and builders creating and modifying open-source Bitcoin mining hardware and software. Projects include Bitaxe, NerdAxe, Bitcrane, AxeOS, Piaxe, Qaxe, and more — fully open designs that anyone can build, change, and improve.

OSMU represents exactly what the 256 Foundation exists to encourage: a decentralized, permissionless community that puts the tools of Bitcoin mining back in the hands of individuals.

Hashrate Heatpunks marry the Bitcoin mining and heating sectors to accelerate adoption of hashrate heating — building the standards, education, and infrastructure needed to bring mining back to homes and businesses.

Distributed, utility-based hashrate is one of the most powerful forces for Bitcoin decentralization. Heatpunks tackle the biggest barriers to home mining — wasted heat & profitability — by reframing it as a feature.

Jua Kali — Kiswahili for "hot sun," used in Kenya to mean blue-collar, hard-working craftsmanship — is an open-source project that runs Bitcoin ASIC hashboards directly from DC power sources like solar panels and batteries, no AC grid required.

Most of the world lacks reliable grid power. Jua Kali unlocks stranded energy for Bitcoin mining — enabling off-grid communities to participate in securing the network using direct solar or battery power.

ASIC-rs is an open-source Rust library for communicating with Bitcoin mining ASICs. It standardizes the low-level protocol interface so firmware developers can build miner software without reverse-engineering proprietary hardware layers.

A well-documented, openly licensed library for speaking to ASICs is a critical missing piece in the open mining stack. ASIC-rs fills that gap — enabling Mujina and future open firmware projects to run without closed dependencies.

HashScope sits transparently between miners and pools, capturing every Stratum v1 message in real time. It parses JSON-RPC traffic, tracks sessions, and distributes share events to a scalable agent fleet via Nostr — providing a complete picture of how mining pools actually behave.

You cannot improve what you cannot measure. HashScope gives the open-source mining community a dedicated tool for auditing pool behavior and exposing protocol-level issues — without depending on proprietary observability software.