Stablecoin issuer Tether announces that its self-developed Bitcoin mining operating system "Mining OS (MOS)" will be open-sourced in the fourth quarter of 2025. This system features a modular design and distributed IoT architecture, supporting flexible deployment from micro-computers to large mining farms. The goal is to lower the mining threshold, allowing more individuals and enterprises to participate in Bitcoin network maintenance, ultimately achieving true decentralized computing power.
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ToggleMOS Opens the "Public Channel" for Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin mining has long been a game dominated by capital and scale, with technology and equipment highly concentrated in large companies and professional mining operators. Tether's plan to completely open-source MOS is equivalent to opening a fast lane towards mining autonomy.
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated: "In the future, startups, small teams, and even individual developers can use MOS to set up and control their own mining machines without relying on third-party closed-source software or expensive solutions."
MOS will create a fair competitive environment, narrowing the technological gap between small-scale players and large institutions, thereby enhancing the overall decentralization and security of the Bitcoin network.
Modularization, AI, and Democratization: MOS Outlines a New Mining Enterprise Landscape
The biggest highlight of MOS is its flexible and modular design. From connecting a few mining machines to a Raspberry Pi to monitoring tens of thousands of mining machines in large mining farms, MOS can adapt and seamlessly expand. Its core architecture uses a peer-to-peer IoT (P2P IoT) design, emphasizing flexible deployment and system resilience.
Additionally, MOS comes pre-integrated with various plugins, supporting different cooling methods (such as air or liquid cooling) from mainstream mining machine manufacturers, power monitoring equipment, and temperature control systems. In the future, developers can develop and customize plugins, contributing to the community and continuously enriching the ecosystem.
In other words, from small-scale self-operated photovoltaic equipment owners to fully automated mining farm operators, MOS can become the core of their operations, significantly reducing management costs and technical barriers.
Mining Combined with AI: Tether Targets Intelligent Operations and Surplus Electricity Economy
In Ardoino's vision, MOS is not just a mining system, but an evolving open platform. In the future, Tether may integrate its internal data system @QVAC_tether, combining AI tools to analyze the massive data generated during mining, further optimizing production reports and performance scheduling. This is expected to bring unprecedented operational insights and precise control capabilities to global mining operators.
On the other hand, MOS also paves the way for the potential of "surplus electricity mining". As more small and medium-sized enterprises or households deploy solar and wind energy green facilities, MOS will transform previously wasted surplus electricity into mining revenue. In the future, numerous local mining nodes are expected to emerge, forming a truly decentralized energy and computing power network.
Ardoino describes this transformation with the slogan "Make Mining Great Again", emphasizing that this is a project truly changing the Bitcoin mining landscape:
The open-source project is currently actively organizing documentation, manuals, and code repositories, with plans to officially launch and open to community participation in the fourth quarter of 2025.
From Mining Farms to Home L1: Tether's Expansion Path Without IPO
Besides the MOS system, Tether has recently been highly focused on by the market due to its financial condition, asset allocation, and business expansion. USDC issuer Circle's recent IPO has led to speculation about Tether's valuation, reaching an astonishing figure of $51.5 billion, which would make it the 19th largest company globally.
The company has simultaneously launched Stable, a Layer 1 public chain specifically designed for stablecoins, creating an ecosystem for its USDT stablecoin, and injected a large amount of Bitcoin into the new investment reserve institution Twenty One Capital, strengthening its financial and financial foundation.
It seems that in Ardoino's view, Tether is not just a stablecoin issuer, but a diversified company committed to building fair technological, capital, and governance foundations.
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Here's the English translation: Is Bitcoin a symbol of liberalism's victory? Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Dark Web Silk Road, encountered a life miracle this year. Not because he became wealthy by establishing the Silk Road Dark Web platform at 24, allowing Bitcoin-using libertarians to buy and sell drugs, but because he has a chance of being pardoned after being imprisoned. This is a miracle. Trump is probably the first president who is both anti-drug (fentanyl) and pardons libertarian advocates. Libertarian advocates believe people have the right to purchase drugs, and the government cannot deprive this right - completely opposite to Trump's stance. But Trump is Trump because he can rationalize all contradictions. Ross Ulbricht happened to be lucky during the US election, becoming Trump's best chess piece to attract liberals and regain his freedom. Many compare Ross Ulbricht with recently arrested Taiwanese alternative Lin Rui-xiang. Both have highly similar backgrounds - they are genius students from non-wealthy families who received scholarships through excellent academic performance, yet chose unconventional paths: drug dealing. Both were young when establishing their websites, with Ulbricht being 24 when creating Silk Road, the same age as Lin. Bitcoin was previously seen as a symbol of anarchism or liberalism, a decentralized currency created to resist central authoritarianism. After Bitcoin's birth, various illicit businesses began operating using its anonymity, all under the banner of freedom. Few know that the original prototype of a Bitcoin-based drug trading website wasn't from Ross Ulbricht, but a fantasy post on the Bitcointalk forum. User Teppy wrote about Bitcoin's future applications, using its anonymity to enable heroin stores. This vivid narrative "inspired" Ross Ulbricht to found Silk Road and subsequently inspired Lin Rui-xiang. Was this all libertarianism's fault? [The rest of the text follows the same translation approach]
The FBI ultimately linked Ulbricht with altoid through multiple methods, including discovering that Ulbricht used his personal email to recruit a development team to help build the Silk Road website, and Ross Ulbricht's posts led to the first court subpoena ever received by the Bitcointalk forum.
On the internet, understanding people's true intentions has always been difficult, but Teppy's hypothetical fantasy piece actually came true, and it even inspired Ulbricht. Bitcointalk forum user Timo Y posted a comment in October 2013, just a week after Ulbricht was arrested in a science fiction section of a library in San Francisco, and this post was specifically mentioned in Ulbricht's indictment by U.S. law enforcement.
Timo Y stated that the Bitcointalk forum was once full of dreamers discussing various possibilities, and it felt like endlessly discussing how William Gibson's dystopian novels could realize these seemingly impossible scenarios in the future. In the cyberpunk world, humans are highly dependent on technology and fall into a space of drug addiction and self-destruction. However, he said he was truly surprised that a fantasy piece would become a real-world criminal method.
Ross Ulbricht denied being altoid, denied being Dread Pirate Roberts and Frosty, and denied hiring a hitman. The author found the press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, which showed that Ulbricht was convicted of seven charges including drug distribution, online drug distribution, conspiracy to distribute drugs, engaging in continuing criminal activity, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, conspiracy to sell fake identity documents, and conspiracy to launder money. There was no "hiring a hitman" incident widely circulated online, which also explains the main basis for Ulbricht's mother's emphasis that her son would not harm others - Ross Ulbricht never personally murdered anyone.
While many Taiwanese news media were mocking Ross Ulbricht and Lin Ruixiang for being smart their entire lives but foolish for a moment, not understanding how to use aliases or launder money through intermediaries, the author has a different perspective. Serious criminals challenge the system - would they not understand the risks of drug trafficking? They plan to conduct an experiment that completely subverts human moral boundaries because they highly advocate libertarianism or the Shadow Economy. In this experiment, they earned big money and enjoyed a higher level of excitement. Perhaps they never touched drugs themselves, but the thrill of conquest and destruction far exceeded the profits from drug trafficking. The same excitement occurs in other serious criminals who no longer care about being caught. Moreover, establishing a Dark Web drug trafficking operation is not easy to find like-minded accomplices. In this deadly game, most ultimately end up being betrayed by others. These two geniuses choosing to act alone as lone wolves is not without reason.
If Bitcoin is just the ultimate social experiment testing human nature, then Satoshi Nakamoto is the greatest mastermind of this century, still anonymously watching from behind the scenes. If Satoshi Nakamoto is still alive, he would be coldly observing this human self-inflicted farce.
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