On September 1, the BIP-110 chain forks to BLAKE2b, a proof-of-work built to run on ordinary processors. We build the machines for it.
The change
Quiet, efficient BLAKE2b rigs sized for a spare room rather than a warehouse. Standard parts, no proprietary silicon, nothing you can't service yourself or repurpose later.
The point of a CPU-friendly proof-of-work is that mining stops requiring permission from a hardware supply chain. Building a machine that reintroduces that dependency would miss it entirely.
As of mid-August, roughly 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed on the original chain. BIP-110 is a minority fork. It mined two blocks and fell behind. It may not survive.
We're building for it anyway, and we'd rather you heard the number from us than found it afterward.
The hedge is real, though: these are general-purpose machines. If the chain doesn't make it, you own a capable computer rather than a brick, which is more than anyone holding an ASIC can say after an algorithm change.
One email when there's something real to sell. No newsletter, no countdown timers, no preorder taken before hardware exists.
We'll use it for exactly that and nothing else.