DIE-Mining

Distributed IoT Energy-Efficient Mining

A concept for lightweight mining on ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers, now realized through the PoT-O system.

Concept

Traditional cryptocurrency mining requires expensive GPUs. DIE-Mining enables participation using low-power IoT devices by:

1. Constraining tensor dimensions to sizes ESP devices can handle (32x32 to 64x64)
2. Using lightweight operations (ReLU, sigmoid, dot product) that fit in limited memory
3. Distributing challenges that are solvable within ESP computational budgets

Relationship to PoT-O

DIE-Mining is the hardware strategy; PoT-O is the consensus mechanism. Together they enable:

• ESP32S devices to mine PTtC tokens
• Energy-efficient proof generation
• Decentralized IoT mining networks

See ESP Mining for setup instructions.