256 Foundation (@256FOUNDATION) — Twitter Score 15 out of 1000

256 Foundation is a nonprofit public charity co-founded by Bitkite and Econoalchemist to fund free and open-source Bitcoin mining hardware, firmware, pool software, and education. 256 Foundation's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #64,803 among 483,652 tracked accounts.

256 Foundation was incorporated in February 2024 as a 501(c)(3) public charity and operates as a 100% passthrough organization, meaning all donations flow directly to developers rather than covering overhead. Its core grant projects span the full mining stack: Ember One, Mujina, Libre Board, and Hydrapool. In January 2025, the foundation solo-mined Bitcoin block 881,423, earning 3.146 BTC, a milestone that demonstrated the practical reach of its open-source mining work.

256 Foundation has attracted backing from a range of organizations committed to open-source and human-rights-aligned Bitcoin infrastructure, including OpenSats, the Human Rights Foundation, MARA Foundation, Proto, Open Source Miners United, Foundry, and Heatbit. Proto donated 256,000 Intel BZM2 Bitcoin-mining ASIC chips to the foundation, a significant hardware contribution to its open ecosystem efforts. 256 Foundation also won the MARA Foundation's inaugural $100,000 community contribution award in April 2026.

256 Foundation has published 912 posts and has been mentioned by 31 accounts, with 89 total mentions across the platform.

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The accounts that follow 256 Foundation include 71 founders, 4 angel investors and 51 influencers. Notable followers include Alex Gladstein, Roman Storm, Dan, Preston Pysh, Jihan Wu and Kyle Torpey.