Mining Like The Big Players - 14 May 2026

Heard of the new hash marketplace options companies like Braiins are offering? Want to learn to mine like the big players with multi- Petahashes per second?

Join us for discussion on how to support the decentralization of the mining network with real economic activity by putting your hodl stack to work.

Come and learn more with demos of some of the latest tools to take advantage of the Brains Hashpower API such as Brains Hashpower Autopilot and some locally vibe coded scripts and tools for hash market automation.

Transcript

1. Mine Like the Big Players Using Hashrate Marketplaces, DATUM, & Automation for securing real economic activity
2. Why Hash Markets? You don’t need a huge warehouse in West Texas with cheap electric to mine Bitcoin New hash marketplaces let you rent PH/s-scale hashrate on-demand Combine rented hash with DATUM and own your block templates Let HashGuard or Braiins Hashrate Autopilot babysit your bids through price spikes Put your hodl stack to work securing the network and enforcing your rules We’ll show you the tools, then demo them live
3. The Miner Centralization Problem A few pools control most of Bitcoin’s power They decide which transactions go through When everything clusters in one place, rules can be bent How do we participate in mining at scale without feeding the fiat machine? (3 - 4 pools control >50% of Bitcoin's hash rate)
4. Two Solutions: Rent Hash + Control Templates Rent Hash (no hardware) Braiins Hashpower (beta): live order book, instant delivery Minimum order: 10,000 sats (~$9) Control Templates (your rules) DATUM + Stratum V2: miner- controlled block templates from your own node Pool only handles difficulty + reward coordination Together = Industrial-scale hash, your transactions, your rules.
5. Braiins Hashpower Overview Launched Jan 2026 (public beta) On-demand SHA-256 hashrate Live order book: bid/ask in BTC per EHs/day 0% service fees during beta Telegram: @braiinshashpower
6. How the Market Works Bids (You Buy) Place bid at your price (e.g. ₿47000 sats/Ph /day) Delivers continuously while balance covers it Cancel bid anytime and make new Asks (Miners Sell) Cheapest liquidity: ₿47,000 - 48,0000 sats range Real-time charting: 5M/15M/1H/4H/1D timeframes Older bids have precedence, then highest bid over market
7. Solo -vs- Pooled Mining Solo (Lottery) Fixed cost, fixed duration, all-or-nothing 10,000 sats → 1.95 PH/s for ~2 hours (0.0025% win chance) Provably fair; full block reward if you hit Reward is ₿3.125 (~$300K) + fees every 10 minutes Odds are low but much better than Powerball Pooled (Steady Sats) Share hash with thousands of miners Earn proportional sats per block found Ocean uses TIDES payout (no pool fee) Predictable, low-variance income No jackpot, but less dry spells
8. Path A: DATUM + Ocean.xyz Run your own node (Core or Knots) with DATUM Build templates from your mempool Route rented hashrate to your DATUM endpoint Path B: Stratum V2 + dmnd.work Open protocol for template negotiation Miner proposes template; pool approves or rejects Works with Slush Pool (Braiins) and others
9. Node Choice - Core vs. Knots (BIP-110 / RDTS) Bitcoin Core (permissive) Accepts nearly all valid transactions (Ordinals, inscriptions, non-monetary data) Neutral mempool - doesn't judge transaction 'purpose' Bitcoin Knots (restrictive) Limits data pushes >256 bytes, large scriptPubKeys Goal: filter non-monetary data Controversy: Censorship vs. protecting Bitcoin-as-money Our take: You choose. Both work with template-control protocols.
10. Our Stack Braiins Hashpower (rented PH/s) ↓ DATUM or StratumV2 endpoint (your node) ↓ Bitcoin Core / Knots (mempool + templates) ↓ Ocean.xyz or Solo Pool (rewards) ↓ C-Lightning (Bolt 12 payouts w/ onchain fallback) ↓ HashGuard or Braains Hashrate Autopilot Physical: StartOS on Dell OptiPlex 9020M | 2TB SSD, 16GB RAM
11. HashGuard (Our Auto-Optimizer) Stall detection - if hashrate drops to 0 TH/s, automatically overbids the lowest matching ask by 1 tick (1,000 sats) to restore flow on Braiins Trim-down - if delivering but overbidding by >4%, trims back to optimal price to save sats Auto-topup - pre-places a new bid when any active order drops below 20% remaining balance Profitability ceiling - never bids above hash value + 10% (calculated from live difficulty) Signal alerts - sends a notification on every action (stall boost, trim, topup) State logging - tracks actions and daily price lows for trend analysis Secrets - stored in Bitwarden, decrypted only at runtime
12. Hashrate Autopilot Braiins Autopilot (Managed) Smart single-bid optimizer for Braiins hashpower - pays lowest cost, not market price Detects stalls, overbids by 1 tick (1,000 sats) to stay filled Routes through local DATUM Gateway → Ocean pool Live dashboard with bid history, diagnostics, real- time charts Demo: 100.102.167.5:3010
13. How We Built It - Agent Stack Hermes Agent - Privacy-Tiered AI Tier Model Location Use Case T1 Local Qwen3.5:9b Agentorange (home) API keys, configs, wallet data T2 TryMaple E2E encrypted cloud Financial CSVs, analytics T3 Opus / Cloud Orchestration only Generic scripts, public data, slide outlines Raw sensitive data never touches T3. Bitwarden vault + sops/age file encryption. Secrets injected only at runtime.
14. How We Built It - Hashguard Vibe-coded with Hermes Agent - YMMV Tell Hermes: 'My Braiins bids keep stalling at night. Write a script to detect and fix this.' Hermes scaffolded hashguard.py using the Braiins API, Bitwarden for secrets, Signal for alerts sops + age for file encryption. Bitwarden vault for API keys. Nothing hardcoded, ever. LaunchAgent (cron) on the home server. Logs to ~/sovereign-digest/logs/
15. Economics & Risks Costs Market rate: 47,000–48,000 sats/PH/day (live) 1 PH/s for 24h ≈ $38 at $80.5k BTC That's ~1,000 Bitaxes running for a day - no hardware Solo pack: 10k sats → 1.95 PH/s for 2 hours Risks Mining variability - payouts may not cover bids (you can lose money) Bids can sit unfilled during price spikes Solo mining is a lottery, not income API key leak → anyone can spend your balance Mitigations Start small: 50k sats, 1 PH/s, see how it works Monitor via Signal alerts or live dashboard HashGuard prevents stall blindness and caps overpay sops/age + Bitwarden means keys never in plaintext, rotate instantly if leaked
16. Call to Action This Week Sign up at hashpower.braiins.com (10k sats min) Try a one-click solo package Install Braiins Hashrate Autopilot to test This Month Join @braiinshashpower on Telegram Onboard to Radicle (see HackMD guide) Clone hashguard from seed: 64.227.21.124:8776 Build Vibe-code your HashGuard or Autopilot variant Contribute to the meetup Radicle space Share your stack to teach others
17. Resources Braiins Hashpower - hashpower.braiins.com Braiins Academy / API Docs - academy.braiins.com DATUM Protocol - ocean.xyz/datum Stratum V2 - stratumv2.org Hermes Agent - https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ Hashrate Autopilot Repo - https://github.com/rdouma/hashrate-autopilot HashGuard - https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/iris.radicle.xyz/rad:z3gAUxMoQvVVFYcX1qZPdo8PLAY2Q Radicle Onboarding Guide - hackmd.io/2TWrbU_sRmCvkexVUzAUYA Decentralized Project Ideas - hackmd.io/@wvwatson/ryWuxygDWx