Hey all!

This started as a company project to learn about blockchain and since we loved it so much decided to share our experiment with your community to help us learn more about cryptocurrency.

This isn't your typical "moon boy," ICO, dev tax cash grab. We actually all have great jobs but love exploring new things in our free time. Working for a tech company that is responsible for millions of users has afforded us the ability to see technology work at scale and impact lives. We want to build a community of like-minded individuals that are interested in furthering blockchain adoption.

The goal of this project is to get everyday users aware of the benefits of decentralized organizations and ledgers. This is NOT a project about getting on the latest exchange and dumping coins/tokens on the "greater fool." Please do you reply if that is your intent. We also want to make the Litebeam software (a fork of BEAM) super user-friendly so over time we can onboard as many users as possible.

Our community intends to use the wonderful work of the Beam.MW team to help promote the MimbleWimble protocol. In our experience, the launch of BEAM was quite pro and really didn't afford enthusiats or causual miners a chance to actually win a whole block or contribute significant cpu hash power to securing the blockchain. Since everyone typically has a cpu at work and some spare time, we felt it was an awesome opportunity to leverage both.

With Litebeam, our intention is to create a fun experience for everyday people at work to get ahold of crypto and learn the value of becoming their own bank (outside of Coinbase custody).

In summary, we are NOT expert programmers, traders or interested in any substantial financial gain outside covering the costs to further educate people on crypto.

In fact, we had such a great time learning to compile code, monitor cpu temps and watching blocks mature, we geared our user experience around it. So we'll offer the code, which is basically what you can find on BEAM.MW Github with a few adjustments to help with cpu mining and an increase block reward of 275 LITE. It should be fairly straightfoward to mine from the GUI (Windows & MAC) and win blocks. Keep in mind, this is for fun! So don't stress and let's get to know each other.

Let us know what you think. We are here to learn and grow with the community. Not get rich quick or engage in any financial discussions. To avoid conflict of interest with our current employer, will be remain pseudonymous.

So if you need help compiling the code, we will hangout in the discord and provide support. Also, for the first 100 people that download the source and join the discord, we will send you back some LITE to get started. We are around at the 7000 block and will use some of the crypto awarded for people that need a bit more encouragement to learn the ropes of self-guided financial freedom.

We understand this is a different type of project and is not geared towards "get rich quick" so we welcome all feedback. We hope to put some fun back into crypto mining and meet some interesting people across the globe. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

The Litebeam Team

https://litebeam.org
https://discord.gg/kga9sgg