Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90): The Decentralized AI & Compute Marketplace
How Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90) work: job-kind events, the Lightning-zap payment loop, DVMs vs centralized AI vs DePIN, and running your own.
Bitcoin Mining Blog
Mining knowledge, repair guides, and industry insights from the workshop floor.
Run Your Miner Off Solar and Battery: State-of-Charge-Driven Mining
Tune your miner to watts, not hashrate, and tie that budget to your battery state of charge. A practical playbook for solar and battery (SoC-driven) mining.
Monitor Your Home Miners: A Self-Hosted Prometheus + Grafana Stack
Stand up a single-pane-of-glass for your home mining fleet in one evening. A copy-paste Prometheus + Grafana + node_exporter stack on a Raspberry Pi, with a sample dashboard and the four alerts that actually save sats.
Bitaxe Gamma 601 vs 602: What Actually Changed Between Board Revisions
This is the first entry in the Bitaxe Encyclopedia hardware-revision changelog — a running, plain-English record of what actually changes between board revisions of the…
Automated Growing on the Sovereign Homestead: FarmBot, Open-Source Greenhouse Control, and Miner Heat
Automated growing is the food layer of a resilient homestead: an open-source robot that seeds, waters and weeds a raised bed, an open controller that…
DCENT_OS Closed Beta Log #1: What Closed Beta Actually Looks Like
Archive scope: this engineering log records the project state on July 2, 2026. It is preserved to show how the work and evidence evolved; it…
How to Build a Genuinely Quiet Bitcoin Mining Setup at Home (Without Killing Your Hashrate)
Build a genuinely quiet bitcoin mining setup at home: pick a quiet-capable miner, underclock in firmware to cut heat, and build an airflow-first enclosure.
Bitaxe vs Avalon Nano vs Antminer: The Complete Home Bitcoin Miner Comparison (2026)
Bitaxe vs Avalon Nano vs Antminer: the only 3-way home Bitcoin miner comparison for 2026, ranked by hashrate, efficiency, noise, heat, price (CAD) and skill.
The Sovereign Stack, One Map: Bitcoin + Mesh + Local AI + Renewable Energy
The sovereign tech stack in one map: own your data, compute, code, and power. Four pillars tying Bitcoin, mesh, local AI, and renewable energy together.
Claude Code, Codex and Local Coding Agents: Can a Pleb Run Them Offline?
Claude Code and Codex are cloud agents. Here’s what it really takes to run an equivalent local coding agent fully offline on open weights, and when to do it.
Behind-the-Meter Bitcoin Mining: Running Miners on Home Solar
Running a miner behind the meter on home solar, consuming your own generation as a controllable load instead of exporting it cheaply, plus the building blocks, the export trade-off, and the safety and code basics.
Your Right to Repair Your ASIC: What the Law Actually Lets You Do
What right-to-repair laws across the US, EU, and Canada actually entitle an ASIC owner to: parts, tools, documentation, and TPM repair rights, and what they do not. Informational, not legal advice.
Net Metering vs Net Billing for Home Bitcoin Miners in Canada
How Canadian net metering and net billing credit your solar surplus, and why running a miner as a controllable load on midday solar usually beats exporting it below retail.
Mesh & Off-Grid Comms Protocols for Bitcoiners: A Neutral Landscape
There is no single “best” off-grid messaging protocol for Bitcoiners. The right tool depends on the medium you can use, the range you need, whether…
Meshtastic over MQTT: Bridging Your Mesh to the Internet (and the Trade-offs)
The Meshtastic MQTT module bridges a local LoRa mesh to the wider internet by letting an internet-connected node act as a gateway that forwards mesh…
MCP for Plebs: What the Model Context Protocol Is, and Why It Powers DCENT_axe Control
What is MCP? A plain-English explainer of the Model Context Protocol – how MCP servers and tools let your AI agent control your own Bitcoin miner, locally.
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS: A Sovereign Mobile Base for Bitcoiners
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are de-Googled Android operating systems that turn a supported phone into a privacy-hardened base for Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, and other sovereignty tools.…
Ecash on Bitcoin: A Practical Guide to Cashu and Fedimint
Ecash on Bitcoin is private, custodial digital cash. Using Chaumian blind signatures, a mint issues bearer tokens backed by Bitcoin and Lightning, but cannot see…
Reticulum: A Cryptography-First Mesh Stack for Sovereign, Off-Grid Comms
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack, created by Mark Qvist, that lets anyone build local and wide-area networks over almost any medium — LoRa radio,…
Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC): Connect Any App to Your Lightning Wallet
Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is an open protocol, defined in NIP-47, that lets any app control a Lightning wallet by exchanging encrypted messages over Nostr…
Immersion-Cooled Miner Maintenance: Fluid, Filtration & Hardware Upkeep
Maintaining an operating single-phase immersion Bitcoin mining deployment comes down to four ongoing jobs: keep the dielectric fluid healthy (test breakdown voltage, moisture and acidity…
Bitcoin and Mesh Networks: The Same Fight for Sovereignty
Bitcoin secures money without permission; mesh networks (LoRa, Meshtastic, Reticulum) secure communication the same way. A vision essay on why Bitcoiners and mesh builders are natural allies in one fight for sovereignty.
Self-Hosted RAG for Bitcoiners: Build a Local AI That Actually Knows Your Miner Docs
Build a fully offline self-hosted RAG: local embeddings, a local vector database, and Ollama, so a local AI answers from your own miner docs. No cloud.
How Much VRAM Do You Really Need to Run Local AI? Quantization, Context and Tokens/sec
How much VRAM to run local AI? Size any LLM with params x quant + context, see tokens/sec by GPU tier, and buy the right card. A pleb’s sovereign-stack guide.
DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma or Llama: Which Open-Weight Model Should a Pleb Self-Host?
The best local LLM in 2026 depends on your VRAM and task. A pleb’s matrix for choosing DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma or Llama open weights you fully own.
DeepSeek DualPath Explained: The Storage Bottleneck Behind Open-Weight AI Sovereignty
DeepSeek’s DualPath (arXiv 2602.21548) is a datacenter serving system that breaks the KV-cache storage bottleneck in agentic AI. What it is, and why it matters.
Is a Bitaxe Worth It? The Honest Solo-Mining Economics (Lottery Odds + Heat Value)
Is a Bitaxe worth it? Honest solo-mining economics: real lottery odds, electricity-cost math (under $3/mo CAD), payback truth, and the value calculators miss.
Genuine Bitaxe vs Clones: How to Spot a Real Open-Source Miner (and Why It Matters)
How to tell a genuine Bitaxe from a corner-cutting clone: chip sourcing, power QC, open firmware, repair and warranty, and why a verified Canadian vendor matters.
Bitaxe vs Antminer S9: Should a Home Miner Buy Open-Source or Refurb Industrial?
Bitaxe vs Antminer S9: an honest head-to-head on efficiency, noise, heat, cost and learning value to help home miners pick open-source or refurb.
The Used-ASIC Price Floor: How Low Can Antminer Prices Go, and Why That’s Bullish for Home Mining
What sets the price floor for a used S19 or S21? Efficiency, power cost, and hashprice decide the bottom, and a falling floor is bullish for home miners. Here’s the math.
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Last reviewed August 8, 2026.