Bitcoin's original vision. Anyone with a laptop can mine it. No ASICs. No GPU farms. No instamine. Just CPU, Yespower, and honest proof-of-work.
Satoshi wrote in 2010: "It's nice how anyone with just a CPU can compete fairly equally right now." That stopped being true in 2011. LegacyCoin makes it true again.
Yespower is memory-hard. ~128KB per hash makes GPUs irrelevant. Your laptop competes fairly.
No premine. No ICO. No founders' rewards. Block 1 is mined the same way as block 1,000,000.
No SegWit. No BIPs. No governance theater. The rules are set. No committee can change them.
DGW3 adjusts difficulty every block. The first block is just as hard as the millionth.
Identical economics to Bitcoin. Different mining algorithm. Completely separate network.
Clone the source, copy Yespower files, run make daemon. One binary. No dependencies to install at runtime.
Run go run ./cmd/genesis once to produce your chain's first block. Takes a few minutes on any CPU.
Run ./legacycoind -gen. Your node connects to peers, syncs the chain, and starts mining immediately.
Each block you find pays 50 LBTC. DGW3 keeps block times at 10 minutes regardless of how many miners join.
The algorithm that prevents early miners from capturing all the easy blocks.
No 2016-block window. Every new block recalculates difficulty instantly using the last 24 blocks.
Recent blocks are weighted more heavily. A sudden hashrate spike raises difficulty within minutes, not weeks.
Difficulty cannot change by more than 3× per block. Prevents extreme oscillation on a young network.
The first block is as hard as the millionth. No early miner advantage. Bitcoin's original instamine problem eliminated.
Everything you need is in a single zip file. No package manager. No Docker. No cloud.
Yespower uses ~128KB memory per hash. Modern CPUs are the sweet spot. Your gaming rig won't help much.
Mining uses all CPU cores by default. Limit with -genproclimit=4 to keep your machine responsive.
No separate wallet software. Keys are stored locally in wallet.dat, encrypted with AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2.
You run the whole chain. No light client, no trusting a server. Your node validates every block itself.
Yespower auto-detects your CPU capabilities. No configuration — just faster hashing if your CPU supports it.
21 million coins. No inflation. No central bank. Halving every 210,000 blocks like clockwork.
| Era | Blocks | Reward | New Supply |
|---|---|---|---|
| Era 1 ← NOW | 0 – 210,000 | 50 LBTC | 10,500,000 |
| Era 2 | 210K – 420K | 25 LBTC | 5,250,000 |
| Era 3 | 420K – 630K | 12.5 LBTC | 2,625,000 |
| Era 4 | 630K – 840K | 6.25 LBTC | 1,312,500 |
| Era 5+ | 840K+ | 3.125… | → 21,000,000 |
Download the source, run five commands, and your CPU starts earning LBTC in minutes. No registration. No KYC. No permission needed.