Bitcoin was built toreturn powerto the many.

However, mining has been centralized, private keys have been surrendered, and nodes have been abandoned. Every day, Bitcoin drifts further from what it was designed to be. Solo Satoshi exists to reverse that drift, one piece of hardware at a time.

The promise, and the slow surrender of it.

Bitcoin’s promise was simple. Money no one controls. A neutral network, open to anyone, censorable by no one.
That promise does not enforce itself. It lives or dies on how many real people run the three functions that make Bitcoin what it is: producing blocks, holding keys, validating rules.
In 2026, all three are drifting into corporate hands. That is the threat. This is the response.

Three pressure points, all trending the wrong way.

Mining.
Centralized.

Four pools template roughly seven of every ten blocks. The map of who gets to write Bitcoin’s history has quietly shrunk to a handful of addresses.

~70%Blocks / 4 pools

Custody.
Surrendered.

More than one in every eight coins sits on an exchange. Not your keys is not a slogan. It is the default configuration of the modern Bitcoin user.

12%+Supply / exchanges

Validation.
Abandoned.

Fewer than one percent of holders run a node. The rest trust an API to tell them what Bitcoin is. Trusted third parties, exactly the thing we were meant to escape.

<1%Holders / nodes

The sovereignty triangle. Own all three.

Your Node

Verify without asking. A full node is the only way to know Bitcoin’s rules are being followed. Not promised, not implied, followed.

Validate

Your Keys

Self-custody is the difference between owning Bitcoin and holding an IOU for it. Everything else is a rehearsal for confiscation.

Custody

Your Hashrate

A single device, pointed at the open network, is a vote against pooled consensus. Solo mining is how block production stays plural.

Produce

Permissionless money is not a feature. It is a civil right. And it only exists as long as real people defend the network that produces it.

— Solo Satoshi Manifesto, §I

Sovereignty is not a crypto-feature. It is a human right.

Financial freedom

The ability to hold, send and receive value without permission. The precondition of every other freedom.

Censorship resistance

A neutral settlement layer cannot unperson you. No policy reversal, no deplatforming, no quiet freeze.

Property rights

Keys you hold are property you own. Keys someone else holds are property they decide you own.

Verification without trust

A running node is the end of “just trust me.” It is Bitcoin’s rules, checked against reality, at home.

Open source as defense

Code anyone can read, audit, fork and ship. The only software worth defending your money with.

Distribution is security

The network is only as safe as it is spread out. Every solo miner, every node, raises the cost of capture.

Pick a front. Hold it.

Take your hashrate

Start mining

Plug in a device, point it at the open network, and take your seat at the block-producing table.

Begin hashing →

Take your keys

Hold your coins

Move from exchange balances to real self-custody with a playbook built for beginners and veterans alike.

Take custody →

Take your node

Run the rules

Enforce Bitcoin’s rules yourself. A small box at home, always on, quietly rejecting everything that isn’t Bitcoin.

Run a node →

Become the hash that changes the world.

Claim your front →Read the full manifesto

The Solo Satoshi Mission