Students, miners, developers, educators, businesses, families. Everyone runs a node. Everyone earns. Everyone owns their identity. This is what a real community looks like on Bitcoin.
Education
The Proofnet Foundation runs the Student Network, Not a course. Not a certification mill. A real blockchain network where students run real Bitcoin nodes, issue real credentials, and build real skills that employers verify instantly.
Students don't read about Bitcoin from slides. They validate blocks. Their node runs Bitcoin Core or Knots, syncs the chain, and participates in consensus. When they graduate, they understand Bitcoin because they ran it.
A welding cert. A food handler permit. A blockchain fundamentals completion. Each credential is a PQ-signed AttestoTM on the student's device. It follows them forever. Employers verify in milliseconds. No phone call to the registrar.
Students write AttestoScriptTM, deploy on Protonet, test EVM translation, build Creator OS websites, and publish to the mesh. The same tools professionals use. The portfolio is on-chain and verifiable.
Graduate students publish papers on post-quantum cryptography, UTXO modeling, decentralized AI, and consensus design using a system built at their own university. Real data. Real architecture. Real peer review.
Every node includes Protonet, a local sandbox that mirrors the production network. Professors spin up a classroom environment in minutes. Students create identities, issue credentials, write contracts, train AI, and mine blocks. Zero risk. Full experience. When they're ready, Protonet attestations promote to the real chain with full PQ signatures.
Mining
The BitAxe is a USB ASIC miner that can plug into any computer. The BAN BitAxe Bridge daemon accepts standard SHA-256 work via Stratum v1 and wraps valid shares as attestations on the Bitcoin Attestation Network.
USB device into any computer. Stratum v1 on port 3333. Contribute SHA-256 work and qualify for Anchor Shares when enabled. No configuration beyond plugging it in.
The same SHA-256 work strengthens Bitcoin and can qualify for qBTCTM Anchor Shares on BAN when that program is enabled. Both networks benefit from your hashrate.
No datacenter. No noise. No heat problems. A USB device on your desk or a touchscreen BitAxe on your shelf. The family can watch the hashrate.
BitAxe Basic - entry level USB ASIC. BitAxe Gamma - 1.1 TH/s, higher share rate. BitAxe Turbo Touch - 2.15 TH/s with touchscreen. Any SHA-256 ASIC compatible via Stratum v1.
Anchor Shares from dual-mining, Mining Shares from SHA3-512 CPU mining, and Attestor Work Shares from the Wallet + Earn preset are all designed as verified-work rewards when enabled.
Communication
Blockie Talkie is not just a developer tool. It's how the community communicates. Encrypted mesh messaging. AI group chat. Voice with per-agent personalities. @toshi.btc identity. No corporate chat platform. No Slack. No Discord. The community runs on its own mesh.
Every node runs a mailbox on port 8811. Your @toshi.btc address is your permanent identity. Send and receive encrypted messages over the mesh. No email provider. No metadata collection.
Bring ElliottTM and community GGUF models into the conversation. Ask questions, get code reviewed, brainstorm. The AI is grounded in Synthetic RAMTM and finalized Memory BlocksTM so it knows the network.
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice cloning. All local. All permissively licensed. Per-agent voices. The community talks, not just types. Hands-free node operations.
Launch AI agents for tasks. Monitor progress. Review results. Dispatch work to mesh machines. The community's AI workforce, running on community hardware.
Peer-to-peer exchange built into the communication layer. No separate DEX. No bridge to another platform. Trade where you talk. Settled on Bitcoin.
Mesh threads for project coordination. Ledger for tracking attestations. Inbox for direct messages. Everything encrypted. Everything on your node.
Build
Deterministic operations. 64-step cap. JSON you can read. The community builds, shares, and audits AttestoScript programs that power the Bitcoin economy.
Community-built templates for food handler permits, professional licenses, academic degrees, business registrations. Fork, customize, deploy. Share via GitNode.
Templates for tokenizing real-world assets. Real estate attestations. Commodity certificates. Equity representations. Community-audited, PQ-signed, Bitcoin-anchored.
Community-maintained patterns for translating Ethereum contracts. ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, ERC-4626 and beyond. Bring your Solidity logic, get deterministic execution.
Community GGUF releases and LoRA adapters derived from attesto and Memory Block datasets. Specialized for AttestoScript, Rust consensus, UTXO validation, and credential issuance. Every model is SHA3-512 hashed with on-chain provenance.
Interoperability
Every major blockchain community keeps its tokens, its dApps, and its culture. BAX is designed to connect them to the Bitcoin economy through chain-specific vault and intent-translation infrastructure. Deposits and bridge flows are not publicly enabled today.
Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Aptos, Sui, Cardano, XRPL, Lightning, Dogecoin, and all EVM networks. Planned chain-specific vault programs and watcher services support these routes as rollout expands. Assets are represented through the Synthetics UTXO lane once the relevant path is enabled.
The Toshi Wallet Extension injects window.ethereum, window.solana, window.cosmos, window.aptos, window.sui. Users interact with existing dApps using existing wallets. BAX translates the intent. No new interface to learn.
Assets that enter BAN are re-signed under ML-DSA-65, hashed with SHA3-512, and routed over Kyber-768-based transport. Classical chains stay classical on their side; BAN applies its post-quantum stack on entry.
HTLC (Hash Time-Locked Contracts) enable trustless atomic swaps between any two chains. No centralized exchange. No slippage from liquidity pools. Direct peer-to-peer, settled as attestations in Memory BlocksTM.
Self-Sovereignty
The Bitcoin economy is not just for traders and developers. It's for families who want to own their identity, protect their credentials, run their own AI, and contribute verified work from their own hardware. Every member of the family participates.
One machine runs the whole family's node. Everyone gets their own @toshi.btc identity. Credentials, wallet, AI, all separate per person but running on shared hardware. Like a family computer, but for the Bitcoin economy.
Children learn Bitcoin, cryptography, and AI by interacting with real systems on Protonet. Not games about blockchain. Actual blockchain they can inspect, modify, and understand. Skills that matter in 10 years.
Post-quantum keys protect your family's identity and credentials for decades. When quantum computers arrive, your keys still work. Your grandchildren inherit quantum-resistant identity, not expired passwords.
The family node can support mining, attestation, storage, anchoring, AI, and model-building workflows from one machine as those features roll out. The family BitAxe on the desk can contribute while the kids do homework.
Proofnet Foundation
The Proofnet Foundation extends the Bitcoin Attestation Network into community governance, education, and transparent nonprofit operations.
Every donation produces a cryptographically verifiable AttestoTM receipt. Donors see exactly where their money went. Boards audit without hiring accountants. No opaque accounting.
Service hours and certifications stored as verifiable credentials on the volunteer's device. Portable across organizations. The 70,000 volunteer hours in Cache Valley throughout the community that inspired this system.
No single entity controls the protocol. The Foundation ensures the network serves communities. Governance weighted by proof-of-work participation, not token holdings. Work, not wealth.
Utah
Logan, Utah. Population 130,000. Known for cheese, not crypto. Two brothers and their family built the most comprehensive blockchain infrastructure ever created. From a house in Cache Valley. Because nobody else was going to do it.
Utah has HB 230 (blockchain rights), SEDI (digital identity), AIPA (AI transparency), and the only state blockchain task force. The Bitcoin Attestation Network is the technology those laws were written for.
Anthony's PhD research in Career and Technical Education at USU directly shaped the network's credential architecture. Drew's decade at USU shaped the infrastructure. The university connection is foundational.
70,000 volunteer hours. CacheCares.org. AmeriCorps Seniors. United Way. President's Volunteer Service Award. The technology was built by people who served their community first.
Wyoming branded itself as crypto-friendly with legislation. Utah has legislation AND the working infrastructure. When other states ask how, the reference implementation is running in Logan.