Michael Schmid ⚡️

@Schnitzel

Founder @amazeeai, Lead Engineer LibreBoard @256foundation, Geek, #Bitcoin Home Miner, [email protected]

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Joined January 2008

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Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Jan 23
This week at the Nashville Energy Mining Summit the @256FOUNDATION (@skot9000 @ryankuester @jungly @econoalchemist @Schnitzel) presented something that hasn’t existed in #Bitcoin for a long time: 👉 a fully open-source Bitcoin mining stack Hardware. Firmware. Software.
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 17
A lot of you asked how the @256FOUNDATION Red Team actually tests closed-source mining firmware. The answer is real hardware. You can't audit what you can't run — so we run it. This is our control-board cage: miner brains on the bench, wired into an isolated lab network.
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 14
Great things are happening!
skot
@skot9000
Aug 14
knock knock, it's open source Mujina support.
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 14
@mynymbox I'm trying to get some VPS for the @256FOUNDATION Red Team Efforts (x.com/Schnitzel/stat…) but it seems you are all sold out :( any plan when they will be available again? Or do you want to sponsor the cheapest root server :)
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 12
~90% of ASICs run one vendor's closed-source firmware. Almost nobody has audited it. We at @256FOUNDATION do. Introducing the 256 Red Team 🧵 — the 256 Foundation's firmware security program. On hardware we own, in an isolated lab, under coordinated disclosure.
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 12
Someone just donated a "Canaan Avalon Mini 3" for the 256-Red-Team 👀 🎉 Let's see what we can find on it. And of course after we dissect it also run Mujina on it, based on the epic work of @unknown_aadhi x.com/unknown_aadhi/…
Michael Schmid ⚡️
@Schnitzel
Aug 12
Replying to @Schnitzel
Support the work: 💸 Donate to the 256 Foundation — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-deductible: 256foundation.org/donate 🖥 Donate hardware — reach out to @Schnitzel. Testing real firmware takes real machines.