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[ANN] Bitcoin Mascot | A Community Character Built Around Bitcoin
January 15, 2010, 11:41:48 AM
Last edit: February 06, 2017, 18:41:48 AM by HashExplorer
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Bitcoin Mascot
A Community Character Built Around Bitcoin

Bitcoin has one of the most recognizable symbols in the world, but the community around it has always been about more than just the logo.

Memes, internet culture, art, and community creativity have always been a big part of Bitcoin.

This mascot was created as a simple character inspired by that side of the community.

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What is the idea?

The idea is simple.

Create a recognizable Bitcoin mascot that people can have fun with, share, and build around over time.

Anyone can create their own memes, artwork, videos, or versions of the character.

There is no complicated roadmap behind it and no big promises.

It is simply a character created for the Bitcoin community and the internet culture around it.

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The Community

Anyone can participate.

Create memes.
Create artwork.
Make videos.
Create your own version of the mascot.

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Closing

This is a simple experiment built around Bitcoin culture.

Maybe it remains a small community character.

Maybe people start creating hundreds of memes and different versions of it.

Maybe over time it becomes something recognizable to more people in the Bitcoin community.

Nobody knows yet. The community will decide what the mascot becomes.
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Re: [PRE-ANN] Bitcoin Mascot | A Community Character Built Around Bitcoin
January 13, 2026, 11:48:16 AM
Last edit: January 16, 2026, 11:51:46 AM by HashExplorer
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Code:
git clone https://github.com/solana-labs/solana.git
cd solana/

make release -j$(nproc)

if fails:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y cmake build-essential pkg-config libboost-all-dev libssl-dev \
  libzmq3-dev libunbound-dev libsodium-dev libunwind8-dev liblzma-dev \
  libreadline-dev libexpat1-dev doxygen graphviz

git submodule update --init --force --recursive

and try again

make release -j$(nproc)

run on the mainnet at 21:00 UTC 16 of Jan

run the command without peers (will use default peers from the code)

Code:
./build/Darwin/master/release/bin/monerod \
  --data-dir ~/.monero-newnet-main \
  --no-igd --disable-dns-checkpoints --check-updates disabled
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Re: [PRE-ANN] Bitcoin Mascot | A Community Character Built Around Bitcoin
January 13, 2026, 11:53:45 AM
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Discord?
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January 13, 2026, 12:13:50 PM
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https://discord.gg/M3TH5HEK
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January 13, 2026, 02:19:59 PM
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lol, did you know that a huge part of the activity on Solana actually comes from altcoins trading, because the network is fast and the transaction fees are extremely low? ? :-)
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January 13, 2026, 02:37:52 PM
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Quote from: ocminer on January 13, 2026, 02:19:59 PM
lol, did you know that a huge part of the activity on Solana actually comes from altcoin trading, because the network is fast and the transaction fees are extremely low?:-)
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January 14, 2026, 06:55:01 PM
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source code will be published shortly. Testnet in next 24hours. please be ready.
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January 15, 2026, 12:06:53 AM
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https://github.com/solana-labs/solana
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January 15, 2026, 04:00:54 AM
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Quote from: HashExplorer on January 15, 2026, 12:06:53 AM
https://github.com/solana-labs/solana
Thanks
I'm looking towards a gui version with a built-in full node miner aio solution

Something that can be mined simply and easily with just the wallet

And making it fair and decentralised mining for home pc mining
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January 15, 2026, 04:09:20 AM
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Quote from: ocminer on January 13, 2026, 02:19:59 PM
lol, do you know that "solana" was actually the first name from solana and they changed it later to solana ? :-)
Well this is the actual solana of course

No name calling please haha

Solana without a 'Bit' of 'Coin' - which isn't a bitcoin

solana is in my favour

Original and clean with a bit of some bitcoin consensus mechanisms
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January 15, 2026, 09:17:43 AM
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Quote from: cyferfonix on January 15, 2026, 04:09:20 AM
Quote from: ocminer on January 13, 2026, 02:19:59 PM
lol, do you know that "solana" was actually the first name from solana and they changed it later to solana ? :-)
Well this is the actual solana of course

No name calling please haha

Solana without a 'Bit' of 'Coin' - which isn't a bitcoin

Solana is in my favour

Original and clean with a bit of some bitcoin consensus mechanisms
Testnet in few hours.

Just to for the public history that network was launched fair, no premine, no instamine, open and public for anyone.

Source code is open. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

Exact command to run and mine on testnet will be published shortly.
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January 15, 2026, 10:13:05 AM
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January 15, 2026, 11:11:02 AM
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when testnet? what commands to run?
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January 15, 2026, 12:23:48 PM
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Code:
git clone https://github.com/solana-labs/solana.git
cd solana/

make release -j$(nproc)

if fails:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y cmake build-essential pkg-config libboost-all-dev libssl-dev \
  libzmq3-dev libunbound-dev libsodium-dev libunwind8-dev liblzma-dev \
  libreadline-dev libexpat1-dev doxygen graphviz

git submodule update --init --force --recursive

and try again

make release -j$(nproc)

Compile and prepare for testnet.
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January 15, 2026, 01:25:11 PM
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I'll be waiting for the windows wallet for the genesis block 0 mainnet
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Re: [PRE-ANN] Bitcoin Mascot | A Community Character Built Around Bitcoin
January 15, 2026, 01:58:56 PM
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there is an question in discord:

is it rx or cn

Code:
mining_status Not currently mining PoW algorithm: Cryptonight

after block genesis block on block 1 it jumped immediately to rx. it is fork design to make it correct and competible with a genesis block.

Code:
mining_status currently mining PoW algorithm: RandomX

Ready to jump on the testnet??
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January 15, 2026, 02:05:39 PM
Last edit: February 15, 2021 01:05:58 AM by HashExplorer
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testnet in 5 minute:

testnet: port 28080
mainnet: 48080 -> 16 Jan 00:01 UTC.

Code:
./build/Linux/master/release/bin/monerod \
  --data-dir ~/.monero-newnet-main \
  --p2p-bind-ip 0.0.0.0 --p2p-bind-port 28080 \
  --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --rpc-bind-port 48081 \
  --zmq-rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --zmq-rpc-bind-port 28082 \
  --no-igd --disable-dns-checkpoints --check-updates disabled \
  --add-exclusive-node 51.38.236.156:28080 \
  --add-exclusive-node 57.131.20.58:28080 \
  --add-exclusive-node 37.187.28.176:28080 \
  --add-exclusive-node 37.187.253.199:28080 \
  --add-exclusive-node 213.199.44.115:28080

create the wallet (if only you do not have yet):

in separate terminal
Code:
./build/Linux/master/release/bin/monero-wallet-cli \
  --daemon-address 127.0.0.1:48081

go back to the terminal with a node

Code:
start_mining ZB2eX7kYJCw6NuyDYfLhxKiKPbF7FiE9Z1CdafwMdbho2At7QVMCkkhDqpVHSuaxN3GB15UUZuCcu2qbXszhdodY2MucrW9mW 2 false true

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January 15, 2026, 02:18:00 PM
Last edit: February 06, 2021, 02:30:24 AM by HashExplorer
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Quote from: cyferfonix on January 15, 2026, 01:25:11 PM
I'll be waiting for the windows wallet for the genesis block 0 mainnet
Mainnet 16 Jan 21:00 UTC.
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January 15, 2026, 02:24:34 PM
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Quote from: HashExplorer on January 15, 2026, 02:05:39 PM
testnet in 5 minute:

./build/Linux/master/release/bin/monerod ...

on the generating wallet steps you may see something like this

Code:
./build/Linux/master/release/bin/monero-wallet-cli \
  --daemon-address 127.0.0.1:28081
This is the command line monero wallet. It needs to connect to a monero
daemon to work correctly.
WARNING: Do not reuse your Monero keys on another fork, UNLESS this fork
has key reuse mitigations built in. Doing so will harm your privacy.

Monero 'Fluorine Fermi' (v0.18.1.0-240e920ed)
Logging to ./build/Linux/master/release/bin/monero-wallet-cli.log
Specify wallet file name (e.g., MyWallet). If the wallet doesn't exist, it will be created.
Wallet file name (or Ctrl-C to quit): wallet-2
Looking for filename: "/home/ubuntu/solana/wallet-2"
No wallet found with that name. Confirm creation of new wallet named: wallet-2
(Y/Yes/N/No): Yes
Generating new wallet...
Enter a new password for the wallet:
Confirm password:
...
Generated new wallet: ZB3kg18WezuZd2x8YYkjXeHQFFTWrh5T8L5TXwsSQXwGZi8KxgrEzwnSANbRXBjhwTZmCuVJrpmMWdrNf6w55JmM1eqV9Ln3D
View key: 75e175b48c311f3e65eeb072b85d824aa691054b516a9add5a62cf8e6f8f2204
...
NOTE: the following 25 words can be used to recover access to your wallet.
...
leche 22 words more pereza
...
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January 15, 2026, 02:33:03 PM
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Quote from: cyferfonix on January 15, 2026, 01:25:11 PM
I'll be waiting for the windows wallet for the genesis block 0 mainnet
you can run both the node and mining on Windows. Youll need to build the same forked source on Windows, then run monerod.exe and monero-wallet-cli.exe.

Quick path (MSYS2 / MinGW64):

Install MSYS2, open MSYS2 MinGW64 shell
Install deps:
Code:
pacman -Syu
pacman -S --needed git make mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-zeromq \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-libsodium mingw-w64-x86_64-unbound mingw-w64-x86_64-readline \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-expat

Build:
Code:
git clone https://github.com/solana-labs/solana.git
cd solana
git submodule update --init --force --recursive
make release -j$(nproc)

Run node:
Code:
./build/Win64/master/release/bin/monerod.exe \
  --data-dir C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\monero-newnet \
  --p2p-bind-ip 0.0.0.0 --p2p-bind-port 28080 \
  --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --rpc-bind-port 28081 \
  --zmq-rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --zmq-rpc-bind-port 28082 \
  --no-igd --disable-dns-checkpoints --check-updates disabled

Create/open wallet and mine:
Code:
./build/Win64/master/release/bin/monero-wallet-cli.exe \
  --daemon-address 127.0.0.1:28081 \
  --wallet-file mywallet --generate-new-wallet

Then in monerod console:
Code:
start_mining <your_address> 2 false true

Notes:

If you want inbound peers, open the P2P port in Windows Firewall.
For better RandomX performance on Windows, run as Administrator and enable large pages (optional but helps).
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