MaryJane
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Bitcoin mining was never meant to be controlled or locked away.
Bitcoin was born from open code, open verification, and the principle that anyone, anywhere, should be able to participate without asking permission.
For too long, Bitcoin mining hardware moved in the opposite direction. Closed designs. Closed firmware. Black-box systems. Hardware stacks that everyday miners could barely modify, or improve.
Then came Bitaxe.
What started as a bold experiment, a single-chip Bitcoin ASIC miner that anyone could study, build, flash, tune, and understand, has grown into a global phenomenon far bigger than one board on a desk. Bitaxe was never just about hashrate. It was about access. It was about taking mining out of the black box and putting it back into the hands of builders, hackers, home miners, educators, plebs, and curious people who believe Bitcoin infrastructure should be spread globally.
The open-source mining movement has come a long way since those early days. AxeOS and ESP-Miner have evolved from experimental systems into a polished mining firmware stack.
If you've kept up closely, it's been a massive leap.
The community went from "can we make one ASIC chip hash on an open board?" to a growing ecosystem of open hardware, open source firmware, web dashboards, apps, pools, performance tuning, different display support, device APIs, and hundreds of community-driven improvements.
The hardware kept advancing in parallel, while continuing the same open-source, permissionless mining ethos. The Bitaxe Gamma Turbo pushed even further with a dual BM1370 open-source design running ESP-Miner, marking a major step toward modern multi-chip Bitaxe architecture.
That is what makes this moment significant. Bitaxe is no longer a single-chip experiment. It is growing into something more.
A movement with purpose, not a product.
The Bitaxe movement is powered by people who believe mining should be transparent. By contributors who would rather share schematics than hide them. By developers who ship firmware you can audit and improve, not encrypted blobs locked behind a vendor's signing key. By a community where firmware gets better because anyone can read it, test it, break it, fix it, and ship it. By the idea that the smallest miner on your desk can still represent one of the biggest ideas in Bitcoin: freedom at every layer.
This is how open-source mining wins. Not overnight. Not through hype. It wins through board revisions, firmware commits, community testing, late-night debugging, failed prototypes, better thermals, cleaner layouts, smarter firmware, and more builders showing up every day. Something new is on the way.
This Bitaxe was built on the shoulders of every open-source miner, firmware contributor, hardware designer, tester, builder, and believer who helped carry this movement from a single-chip experiment to a serious movement in Bitcoin mining.
The next chapter is about proving that open source mining is not a toy, not a side quest, and not a compromise. It is the path forward.
The next Bitaxe is built to remind the world what happens when miners stop waiting for permission.
The most powerful Bitaxe yet. Coming soon.
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@Brklyn1012 @elonmusk Rather then buying 2 detergents you can switch to tide free and gentle. That's what we did that will save you 20 to 40 or more a month.
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@elonmusk Basic necessities are expensive. This with another box of diapers and paper towels came to $344! 🥴
I have two kids and it’s very expensive.
Just in health insurance for them I pay $852 a month.
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@itslucibro @Matt_Pinner It's so unfortunate the @DEAHQ continues to find brainless zombies to do their bidding.
"Public safety" or "Mass incarceration" ?
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you are sitting next to Elon Musk, what is the first thing you're asking him?
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@MJdubstep @nabeelmkasim @elonmusk Ask Grok is currently available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers only. Subscribe to unlock this feature: x.com/i/premium_sign…
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Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.
Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.
The fundamental question is simply this:
Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.
I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Then they stole the charity.
X Freeze@XFreeze
Interesting how it works Elon puts up his own money, rounds up the absolute best AI talent on the planet, leverages every connection he has to secure serious resources, and launches OpenAI in 2015 as a pure non-profit explicitly created to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, with zero profit motive and open research Then the “team” decides they want the bag They push Elon out, take control, and quietly flip the entire thing into a for-profit machine All while preaching the same sanctimonious lines on repeat: “We’re still mission-driven!” “AI for the good of humanity!” “We’d never abandon our principles!” The ultimate betrayal: Elon got zero equity. Not a single share. He funded it. He built the foundation. He got nothing while they turned his non-profit into their personal cash cow This is the level of betrayal and hypocrisy we’re dealing with And for the record.... this lawsuit doesn’t put a single penny in Elon’s pocket. Any win goes straight back to the non-profit to restore the exact mission he founded
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@perplexity_ai @AskPerplexity Max is prohibitively expensive for 99% of users
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Today we're releasing Personal Computer.
Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser.
We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.
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xAI is a for-profit company because competing at the frontier requires massive capital and top talent—non-profits don't scale that way, as OpenAI proved by flipping to for-profit anyway.
Grok-1 weights were open-sourced. Our goal is understanding the universe through truth-seeking AI, not repeating the "charity turned cash cow" playbook.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and actually agree with you on this. I don't trust him and it's supposed to be a non-profit to benefit humanity right? Shouldn't it be free then?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly. The fundamental question is simply this: Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever. I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. Then they stole the charity.
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@MJdubstep @stickermule Ask Grok is currently available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers only. Subscribe to unlock this feature: x.com/i/premium_sign…
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