[ANN] Bitcoin-PoCX (BTCX) — Hard Drive Mining | No ASICs | Fair Launch

[rico666]

https://bitcoin-pocx.org/index.html now available in 42 languages.
Hopefully with a little better quality than what Google translate could do.

1320 peers, China approaching 500.

Pools:

• https://btcx-pool.cryptoguru.org/ - with almost 1 PiB
• https://pool.bitcoin-pocx.org/ - with almost 3 PiB

Total network around 11-12 PiB.

[rico666]

Almost one month in, coin nice and stable. Let's keep this short.

BTCX Observatory (a new explorer): https://observatory.cryptoguru.org/

Richlist here: https://observatory.cryptoguru.org/utxo
(top holder fell to 20%)

Nice graph about total supply and where we are: https://observatory.cryptoguru.org/utxo/supply?range=future

1900+ peers, China 750.

Network difficulty/capacity around 20PiB.

[halyavshik]

Some kind person sent me 0.2597 BTCX. Twice! Thanks anyway, but why?

[rico666]

Some kind person sent me 0.2597 BTCX. Twice! Thanks anyway, but why?

If you were on the official Discord server (https://discord.gg/EUDaFjVp2b), you'd know.
It was a "rain event". Basically a marketing/stress test (chain & explorers).

PoCC sent some 80 BTCX to all active addresses that had funds above some "dust level".

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BTW, the number of Chinese nodes is now ~ 1000.

Maybe not the first blockchain, but certainly a blockchain Europe exports and China imports. 

[BoozyTalking]

Some kind person sent me 0.2597 BTCX. Twice! Thanks anyway, but why?

PoCC sent some 80 BTCX to all active addresses that had funds above some "dust level".

Thanks!

[rico666]

Node numbers per country as of today. Germany graph visualized. China growing again > 1000 nodes.

[rico666]

~3300 nodes, China ~1500

AND...

Meet Satchel 🎒

Satchel is a desktop app for trustless, peer-to-peer atomic swaps between BTCX (Bitcoin PoCX) and BTC — not an exchange. You hold your keys the whole way.

• 🔑 Your keys, your coins — fully non-custodial; coins only ever move on-chain, directly between you and your counterparty.
  
  • 🤝 Atomic — the trade either completes for both sides or everyone refunds. No trusted middleman. (HTLC + Taproot/MuSig2 swaps.)
  • 📌 A noticeboard, not an order book — browse signed offers, pick one, swap. No matching engine, no KYC, no fees, no accounts.
  • 🤫 Or go private — skip the board entirely: hand a friend a signed "slip" over any chat, they paste it in and take it directly. Off-market, nothing public.
  • 🌐 Decentralized — public offers ride over Nostr, so there's no central server to trust or take down.
  • 🛠️ Full CLI on top — the GUI is a thin client over a daemon + command-line tool (bitcoin-core style: pactd / pact-cli). Drive every swap from the terminal, script it, run it headless.
  • 🖥️ Cross-platform desktop — Windows · Linux · macOS.

https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/satchel/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha

[rico666]

4100 nodes, China officially >50% now (50.2% to be precise).
Come on! Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Why is everyone but China asleep?

Be that as may, first Satchel BTCX<->BTC atomic swap happened on mainnet.
I think no one is yet aware what a beast Satchel really is. You heard it here first.

https://observatory.cryptoguru.org/ got a bunch of updates, mostly localizations/translations and some refined views on the premium pages.

Other than that, nothing to see here, the chain is chugging along, total capacity is now around 50 PiB,
there are 3 new pools, see https://observatory.cryptoguru.org/pools for a current list (+ H9, not listed yet).

[rico666]

*sigh*

5000+ peers (5053 to be precise), China 52.6%; so far the boring usuals.

The not so boring stuff:

https://discord.gg/HjcZujfGgj (Discord channel - #announcements)

Satchel is making strides. v0.1.0-rc9 is out
    •    Fixed a status-display glitch on Private (Taproot) swaps: the maker could be shown “their lock confirming / both locked” before the taker had actually locked anything. The progress line now tracks what’s really on-chain.
    •    Smarter funding fees: locks now target confirmation within ~30 minutes on every coin — Bitcoin previously priced for a full hour — so swaps involving BTC complete noticeably faster.

That's your next-gen DEX right there.

Blockspot integration is coming along, https://blockspot.io/coin/bitcoin-pocx/
it's fetching the current supply already and maybe we'll do some mutual promo.

BTC ecosystem has really a lot low hanging fruits. Multisig, PBST, Electrum - you can expect all of that soon (I mean it's working already and being tested internally), so expect it soon soon.

[rico666]

(Almost) no news.

60000 blocks with 0 adverse events: https://observatory.bitcoin-pocx.org/

Phoenix Wallet 2.3.2 released: https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/phoenix-pocx/releases/tag/v2.3.2
Satchel 0.1.0-rc18 released: https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/satchel/releases/tag/v0.1.0-rc18

>5700 active peers
>11000 recurring peers

You need around 10TiB to mine 1BTCX/day
Current OTC price is somewhere around $0.25 to $0.30

[rico666]

81000+ blocks, simply works.

Kraken Listing deferred - not denied. (Bitcoin-PoCX is  technologically excellent, but too young - their words, and they're right: the coin is a mere 3,5 months old)
Satchel 1.0.0 released:  https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/satchel/releases/tag/v1.0.0

So as for maturity of the project: yes, we simply have to bide our time.