Bitcoin III (BC3) mining

[FP91G]

Warning: a virus has been found in the project.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182222.msg66876717#msg66876717



A Bitcoin relaunch with no compatible mining hardware and no rental hashrate market at birth.
https://bc3.network/

BC3 is a fork of the BitcoinII (BC2) Core v29.1 codebase, which itself is a fork of Bitcoin Core v29.1. The code is identical to Bitcoin, except for network-specific parameters and a single consensus change: the block hash and proof-of-work algorithm is SHA3-256t — three iterations of SHA3-256 — instead of SHA-256d.

The block hash algorithm is determined via version bit 12. Pre-fork blocks do not have bit 12 set; and post-fork blocks must. This keeps the block hash algorithm an intrinsic property of the block header itself, and leaves the BIP320-reserved ASIC rolling bits and the top three BIP9 bits untouched. Additionally, this approach still allows the lower 12 version bits to be used for BIP9 signalling.

The hard fork activated at block height 30,240. Block 30,239 was the last SHA-256d block; block 30,240 was the first SHA3-256t block. The difficulty was reset to 1 (nBits = 0x1d00ffff) at the fork height to give the new network room to find its hashrate without producing blocks 35 years apart.
https://bc3.network/#specs

Algoritm: SHA3-256t


wallet
https://github.com/

miner
https://argfamining.com/bc3_how_to_mine.html

pool
https://argfamining.com/solo_bc3.html

explorer
https://bc3mempool.codefalcon.dev/

discord
https://discord.gg/hx8aa7R8tD

Major warning when mining new coins!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5483636

[crackfoo]

Hi,
We've added Bitcoin III (BC3) to http://zpool.ca/algo/sha3-256t. See below for connection details.

Fee only: 1% or less
BTC payouts are processed once a day for balances above 0.00075
Payouts for all other currencies are made automatically every 4 hours for balances above 0.05 and balances more than 0.0125 are included in one of the payouts each day.

- Sample configurations -
To mine sha3-256t and get paid in BC3:

Code:

-a sha3-256t -o stratum+tcp://sha3-256t.mine.zpool.ca:3339 -u BC3_ADDRESS -p c=BC3

Exchange to BTC:

Code:

-a sha3-256t -o stratum+tcp://sha3-256t.mine.zpool.ca:3339 -u BTC_ADDRESS -p c=BTC

All of our ports are NiceHash friendly, no need to specify any extra details

SSL/TLS is available for all ports. Simply prepend the port with a 5. Example for sha3-256t: 53339

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Support: https://discord.gg/n45n6Jj
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_zpool_

[nc50lc]

Hey FP91G, I'm just informing you that someone reported this thread (and another one of yours) as a malware,
here: /index.php?topic=5182222.msg66876717#msg66876717

We know that Virustotal hits are common in crypto wallets and miners and theymos already posted a note in that thread but they still keep on relying on those results.

You might need to post a reply there in your defense.

[JeromeTash]

I think there is a thin line between malware and software that is not malicious in mining, so we have to double-check just to be sure it's not a false positive. Most of the antivirus services seem not to like crypto miners, and at the same time, hackers like to hide behind the fact that most genuine mining software is often flagged.

[P2PKH_dude]

Warning: a virus has been found in the project.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182222.msg66876717#msg66876717

For the record, I just compiled the Windows NSIS installer from the source code at the GitHub repository you linked, and VirusTotal reports the same warnings.

Given that - as far as I can tell - the source code is clean, I'd say it's highly likely that this VirusTotal report is a false positive.

[ocminer]

I've added it as well:

https://bc3.suprnova.cc

And a free, performant miner without any fee as well:

https://github.com/ocminer/suprminer/releases

The miner works on all pools

Have fun mining

[FP91G]

Warning: a virus has been found in the project.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182222.msg66876717#msg66876717

For the record, I just compiled the Windows NSIS installer from the source code at the GitHub repository you linked, and VirusTotal reports the same warnings.

Given that - as far as I can tell - the source code is clean, I'd say it's highly likely that this VirusTotal report is a false positive.

I agree with you that this is most likely a false positive, but the rules and customs of this forum require warnings if a miner is accused of distributing viruses.
Coins like these could contain anything, and miners hunting for such projects always have a separate PC for testing.