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Wattcoin (WTC) is a cryptocurrency built around a novel "Proof-of-Energy" consensus mechanism. Here's the core idea:
Instead of solving useless hash puzzles, miners run benchmark-verified computation tasks and the protocol estimates the electrical energy consumed based on known hardware power draw. Every miner, regardless of whether they use a CPU, GPU, or other hardware pays the same estimated energy cost per coin, so hardware determines speed, not cheapness.
Key Design Choices: Fixed supply of 21 million WTC across 21 tiers of 1 million coins each. In Tier 1, one WTC costs ~20 kWh to mine; each subsequent tier doubles the requirement (Tier 2 = 40 kWh, Tier 3 = 80 kWh, etc.). This "tier ratchet" retroactively raises the energy floor for all previously mined coins too.
No mining pools and no luck variance, every miner gets paid every block, with rewards split proportionally by verified energy contribution.
The network will be backed by a real 60 kW Vortex Gravity Hydro Turbine in Estonia, with 60 Vortex NFTs (Gold/Silver/Bronze tiers) granting holders a permanent share of turbine electricity revenue and on-chain governance voting power over a 300,000 WTC treasury.
Status (May 2026): Mainnet is live, staking rewards are active, and the miner app is available.
In short, Wattcoin is a small, Estonian-based crypto project trying to make mining hardware-agnostic and tie coin value directly to real, verifiable energy expenditure with a physical green energy asset as an anchor.
Open-sorce project, code available in Github.
All info you'll ever need is at: wattcoin.ee
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