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RED TEAM COMES TO BITCOIN MINING: 256 FOUNDATION AUDITS MINING FIRMWARE, FINDS THIRD-PARTY RISKS @256FOUNDATION has launched the 256 Red Team, a security program auditing ASIC mining firmware through reverse engineering, live traffic capture and share-level reconciliation. The
AI visual note: The image is a promotional graphic for the "256 Red Team" by 256 Foundation, highlighting their firmware security program that audits software running Bitcoin's hashrate, noting that approximately 90% of ASICs run a single vendor's closed-source firmware with little auditing. The graphic features a dark background with red accents and lists key audit criteria: operating on hardware they own, in an isolated lab, and under coordinated disclosure.
IN 2021 THIS MUCH TRAFFIC ON ETHEREUM WOULD HAVE COST $50. TODAY IT COSTS SEVEN CENTS. Twice the transactions of 2021, at 1/700th the fee. $0.0719. Back then the fee wasn't a side effect, it was a ceiling. Demand hit capacity, price pushed back, users left. Success capped
AI visual note: Two charts from Token Terminal showing Ethereum data: an average transaction fee of $0.0719 from 2018-2026 and a transaction count of 3.7 billion all-time, credited to 'MERLUN THE TRADER'.