Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc. has announced that it is seeking input on an ongoing Bitcoin mining project, as seen in a blog post from the company on March 7.

Naoise Irwin, Senior Product Lead of Mining Hardware, said that Block is planning to produce a mining development kit (MDK). This will include a “hashboard,” a controller board, software and firmware, and reference materials and documentation.

The company plans to make the hashboard compatible with its own control board and other devices such as the commonly-used Raspberry Pi.

The company also is seeking input on matters such as cost, optimization, configuration interfaces, networking interfaces, programming languages, operating system support, open-source licensing, and compatibility with other mining hardware.

(By Mike Dalton)