Mine for the Mission

TeleHash #3 was the most significant event yet — the first time all four core pillar projects ran together in a single working system. Ember One hashboards driven by Libre Board, running Mujina firmware, pointed at a self-hosted Hydrapool instance. Lead developers were up until 1am the night before getting everything stable. For the event, the team built a test bench kit using water cooling blocks from CryoByte Labs, converting the mining rig into a sous vide heater. They cooked a steak live on stream, using Mujina firmware to dynamically adjust mining power output and hold a temperature probe at exactly 101°F. The demo made it undeniably real: open-source mining hardware doing useful work in the world.

The second TeleHash was a landmark moment for the foundation. Just one month into the first grant round for each core project, the team already had working prototypes in hand — an early Ember One hashboard hashing live to an early Hydrapool instance, both built and running in parallel with active development. Each of the four core projects — Ember One, Mujina, Libre Board, and Hydrapool — was explained in depth during the livestream, with all grants now funded and all projects in active development. Seeing open-source hardware and pool software contribute real hashrate on stream, only weeks into their first grant cycles, was proof that the foundation's model was working.