From 51d617e70f90a972185917ea0096c1ecef2bfa8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bitflash-sh Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:18:11 -0300 Subject: Bitflash: fair-launch release Satoshi's bitcoin-0.1.0 reborn with RandomX CPU proof of work, anonymous .btf addressing over Nostr with CGNAT rendezvous, automatic peer discovery, a headless Linux node, and Windows GUI wallet. Fair launch, no premine, 21M cap. --- src/readme.txt | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/readme.txt (limited to 'src/readme.txt') diff --git a/src/readme.txt b/src/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c72fcec --- /dev/null +++ b/src/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Bitflash (BTF) v0.1 ALPHA +========================= + +A revival of Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin v0.1 client (2009), ported to +a modern toolchain and turned into its own Layer 1 network. + +Philosophy: fair launch, no pre-mine, no ICO. One CPU, one vote. + +Based on code Copyright (c) 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto. +Copyright (c) 2026 The Bitflash developers. +Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying +file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. +This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project. + + +Differences from the original Bitcoin +------------------------------------- +- Own genesis block (22/Jul/2026 headline, independent chain) +- Own magic bytes (0xbf 0x1a 0x5c 0xfd) and P2P port 8433 +- Addresses start with "B" (ADDRESSVERSION = 25) +- Consensus fixes applied: value overflow (CVE-2010-5139), duplicate inputs, + money range checks (MoneyRange) +- IRC peer discovery replaced by Nostr relay discovery +- Memory-hard Proof of Work (RandomX, CPU + RAM) instead of SHA-256d +- Economics identical to Bitcoin: 50 BTF/block, halving every 210,000 blocks, + 21 million total + + +Build (Windows, MSYS2 UCRT64) +----------------------------- +Modern toolchain: + g++ 16 (MinGW-w64 UCRT), wxWidgets 3.2, OpenSSL 3, Berkeley DB 6, Boost, + libsecp256k1 (Schnorr), nlohmann/json, RandomX + +Bundled dependencies are built from source into ../deps and ../RandomX. +In the MSYS2 UCRT64 shell: + bash build.sh (uses src/makefile.mingw) + +The resulting executable is src/bitflash.exe. + + +Command-line options (in addition to the original ones) +------------------------------------------------------- + /port=N listen on P2P port N (default 8433) + /solomine mine without requiring a connected peer (local testing) + + +Roadmap +------- +Milestone 0 Compile the original client on a modern toolchain [done] +Milestone 1 Bitflash identity + genesis + consensus fixes [done] +Milestone 2 Peer discovery over Nostr relays [done] +Milestone 3 Memory-hard PoW (RandomX) instead of SHA-256d [done] +Milestone 4 Public testnet -- cgit v1.2.3