Wattcoin (WTC) mining & info.

[WattcoinInfo]

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 while the protocol estimates electrical energy consumed based on known hardware power draw. Hash rate efficiency doesn't matter, only wattage does. Every miner pays the same estimated energy cost per coin, whether they use a CPU, GPU or ASIC.

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 (July 2026): Mainnet is live, staking and governance are active, the desktop wallet with built-in miner is available for download, and the peer probe attestation system is fully operational. Recent miner updates include GPU-POW multi-device support, GPU load control improvements.
Detailed explainers are available on the blog: architecture overview, probe system deep dive, tokenomics, hardware guides etc...

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.

We are an open-source project, code available on GitHub.
All info you'll ever need is at: wattcoin.ee

[BitMaxz]

Interesting, a Proof of Energy but the problem is what devices or units are compatible with this mechanism?

The only power-hungry one that consumes much power the one built from ASICs.
And another problem is if we do keep a miner with high power consumption, how can we sustain it if it doesn't have a value yet?

It's interesting but risky because it's proof of energy; no one would mine this if it's not profitable.
I am more confident with HNT miners with proof of coverage that consume less power.

[CrocoPoW]

So it's Proof-of-Work without the work, everyone gets paid every time and i still get a good bill in the mail? I would like to know your process of creation. You didn't make a new algorithm, you didn't make a miner, is there a blockchain? From what i see you made a server that reads some data and pays everyone regardless of what the data says?

[WattcoinInfo]

Interesting, a Proof of Energy but the problem is what devices or units are compatible with this mechanism?

The only power-hungry one that consumes much power the one built from ASICs.
And another problem is if we do keep a miner with high power consumption, how can we sustain it if it doesn't have a value yet?

It's interesting but risky because it's proof of energy; no one would mine this if it's not profitable.
I am more confident with HNT miners with proof of coverage that consume less power.

On ASICs: Wattcoin fully supports ASICs: Antminer, Whatsminer, etc. are detected and treated as whole-device mining units. But unlike Bitcoin, there's no hashing advantage. An ASIC contributes purely through its power draw (watts), not its hash rate. That means an old S9 (1350 W) that's landfill in Bitcoin is still fully productive it just earns less than a modern S21 (3500 W) because it draws less power, not because it's obsolete silicon.

On the chicken-and-egg problem: The energy floor itself creates a structural ratchet, each tier doubles the energy per coin, so the rational minimum price for all existing coins rises with each advance.

On profitability vs risk: The key difference from PoW is that rewards are proportional per block, not a lottery. Every miner gets paid every block based on their energy share, no pools needed and no variance. And because all hardware pays the same energy per coin, the marginal miner in every tier is the one with access to cheaper power, not the one with better chips.

On HNT / Proof of Coverage: Helium solved a different problem: verifying that a hotspot is physically where it claims to be. It requires specialized LoRaWAN/5G radio hardware and depends on location density. PoE works on any general-purpose hardware you already own (CPU, GPU, or ASIC). There's no geographic coverage requirement, no specialized radio, and no hardware vendor lock-in. The power cost is the only variable.

So it's Proof-of-Work without the work, everyone gets paid every time and i still get a good bill in the mail? I would like to know your process of creation. You didn't make a new algorithm, you didn't make a miner, is there a blockchain? From what i see you made a server that reads some data and pays everyone regardless of what the data says?

It's all open source, every line is at github. You can verify everything I'm about to say yourself.
Is there a blockchain? Yes. The P2P network runs over HTTP on port 39310 with peer discovery, chain sync, and fork resolution. The full block structure, merkle proofs, and account state are there in the repo.
"A server that pays everyone regardless of data" The energy measurement isn't a server reading some sensor. Every miner runs cryptographic probe challenges issued by multiple peer coordinators(every peer is a coordinator).
These aren't just "trust me bro" readings. Failed probes crater your trust score (which scales your mining contribution between 20–100%). The peer probe system, multi-coordinator cross-attestation, and trust score math are all in code.
No new algorithm? Proof-of-Energy as implemented here replaces SHA-256 lottery with energy estimation. The probes verify the hardware is real and running. The chain then counts verified kilowatt-hours, not hashes. That's a fundamentally different consensus mechanism.
"Proof-of-Work without the work" The work is real electrical load. The miner actually draws power from the wall. The probes verify the hardware exists and is computing. The protocol counts kWh, not hash attempts. You can call it PoW without SHA-256, but the energy cost is the same either way and every miner gets paid proportionally every block instead of hoping to win a lottery.
The repo is MIT licensed. Clone it, read the chain code, watch the peer network traffic, audit the probe system. If there's something specific you think is fake, point to the file and line.

[WattcoinInfo]

Fair for All Hardware, Why PoE Treats Every Chip Equally

Cryptocurrency mining has always been a game of hardware privilege. Bitcoin's SHA-256 arms race means only the newest ASICs on the smallest fab nodes can compete. Ethereum's DAG size locked out 4 GB GPUs. Monero's RandomX shifts advantage toward specific CPU microarchitectures. In every case, the protocol picks winners and losers and the losers become e-waste.

Wattcoin's Proof-of-Energy is the only consensus mechanism that does not care what chip you use. A 65 W laptop CPU from 2015, a 300 W RTX 4090, and a 1350 W Antminer D3 all compete on exactly one metric: watts drawn, verified, and proven to the network.

Core principle: Energy is fungible. One kilowatt-hour from a decade-old Pentium is identical to one kilowatt-hour from a brand-new ASIC. PoE rewards the energy, not the chip that burned it.
Why Other Protocols Are Tiered by Hardware
Proof-of-Work consensus equates "mining work" with "hash operations per second." This seems neutral anyone can run SHA-256 but the physics of silicon fabrication makes it deeply unequal. Each new generation of ASICs delivers 2-3x the hash rate per watt. A miner running S19j Pros at 0.33 J/GH cannot compete with someone running S21 XP units at 0.18 J/GH. The older hardware is priced out of profitability regardless of its power draw.

This creates a winner-take-all dynamic: the latest hardware earns the most, old hardware becomes unprofitable and is discarded, and the barrier to entry rises with every halving cycle. The result is a industry where only those with access to the newest fabrication nodes and bulk purchasing power can participate. The "mining" in Proof-of-Work has become a manufacturing supply chain competition, not an energy market.

How PoE Removes the Hardware Advantage
Proof-of-Energy breaks the link between hash rate and rewards entirely. Mining work is defined as verifiable energy consumption, not hash computations. The protocol measures three things:

Power draw (W) rated per the hardware model, verified through the on-device benchmark and cross-referenced against peer probes.
Duty cycle (%) the fraction of the round the hardware was actively processing workloads under load.
Liveness proof hash challenges and share submission confirm the hardware was genuinely running, not just pretending.
The formula is trivial: energy (kWh) = power (kW) × duty cycle (h). A CPU that draws 65 W and runs 100% of a 24-hour round contributes 1.56 kWh. A 1350 W ASIC running 100% contributes 32.4 kWh. Both are paid proportionally to their energy at the same rate per kilowatt-hour. The ASIC earns more because it consumes more power, not because it computes faster.

PoW rewards hash rate (newest hardware wins). PoE rewards energy (all hardware equal per watt).
What This Means for Miners
No Obsolescence
An Antminer S9 from 2016 draws ~1350 W. An Antminer S21 XP from 2025 draws ~3700 W. On Bitcoin, the S9 is e-waste its hash rate is too low to cover electricity. On Wattcoin, the S9 earns exactly the same per watt as the S21 XP. The S21 XP earns more total because it draws more power, but the rate is identical. The S9 remains profitable for as long as electricity costs less than the coin's energy floor which could be decades.

Lower Barrier to Entry
You do not need to raise capital for the latest ASIC batch to mine Wattcoin profitably. A used Antminer D3 on eBay for $50 draws 1350 W and earns exactly what a brand-new miner of the same wattage would earn. A desktop PC with a 65 W CPU earns proportionally less but at the same rate per kilowatt-hour. Mining is accessible to anyone who can plug in a machine.

E-Waste Reversal
The crypto industry produces an estimated 30,000+ tonnes of e-waste annually from obsolete ASICs and GPUs. Proof-of-Energy makes every retired chip productive again. That RTX 1060 in a drawer, that old Pentium server, that pallet of S9s gathering dust all of them earn at the same rate per watt as the day they were manufactured. The concept of "obsolete mining hardware" simply does not exist on Wattcoin.

What This Means for the Network
Decentralization by Default
When hardware does not confer an advantage, the mining base naturally diversifies. Wattcoin's network already includes CPU miners in dorm rooms, GPU miners in gaming PCs, server miners in data centers, and ASIC miners in dedicated rigs. No single hardware class can dominate because no hardware class has a structural edge. The only competitive variable is electricity price, which is local and cannot be monopolized.

Stable Energy Floor
Because every miner earns the same rate per kilowatt-hour, the protocol's energy floor is not distorted by hardware efficiency variance. The cost to produce one WTC is the same whether it was mined on a CPU or an ASIC. This makes the floor legible, predictable, and resistant to the kind of hash-rate-driven price compression that makes PoW coins volatile to mine.

The Only Fair Consensus
Proof-of-Energy is not just a novel economic design it is the only consensus mechanism that treats every piece of hardware equally, per watt, without exception. It does not favor ASICs over GPUs, CPUs over servers, or new chips over old ones. It rewards the one thing every miner actually pays for: electricity.

In a world where mining has become an industrial arms race, Wattcoin returns mining to its original promise: anyone with a computer and an electricity bill can participate, compete, and earn on exactly the same terms as the largest mining operation in the world.

The bottom line: Hash rate is a proxy for work. Energy is the work. When you reward the thing itself instead of a proxy, the hardware becomes irrelevant. What matters is how much power you can draw not how fast you can compute.

wattcoin.ee

[BitMaxz]

There's no geographic coverage requirement, no specialized radio, and no hardware vendor lock-in. The power cost is the only variable.

Interesting. So any device can mine this coin by simply sending data from any hardware device that draws wattage to the pool and being rewarded?

If that's the case, having a heater and air conditioner would work? We just need a watt meter to sync and send the data how much power does it draw to the pool?


If it is limited to CPU, GPU, or ASIC, I do not think it is attractive because we live in a country with an expensive power source.
So this would be a nonprofitable way to waste our power unless you develop a device that can read the power of any device or appliances, like the sample you made, a watt meter with a Raspberry Pi with a unique program where we can access via browser to set it up and connect it to the pool and we can put any appliances or devices that can draw power. This, I think, could be more possible than limited to CPU, GPU, or ASIC.

[WattcoinInfo]

There's no geographic coverage requirement, no specialized radio, and no hardware vendor lock-in. The power cost is the only variable.

Interesting. So any device can mine this coin by simply sending data from any hardware device that draws wattage to the pool and being rewarded?

If that's the case, having a heater and air conditioner would work? We just need a watt meter to sync and send the data how much power does it draw to the pool?


If it is limited to CPU, GPU, or ASIC, I do not think it is attractive because we live in a country with an expensive power source.
So this would be a nonprofitable way to waste our power unless you develop a device that can read the power of any device or appliances, like the sample you made, a watt meter with a Raspberry Pi with a unique program where we can access via browser to set it up and connect it to the pool and we can put any appliances or devices that can draw power. This, I think, could be more possible than limited to CPU, GPU, or ASIC.

That's a really nice observation, I like when people start thinking about our project.

No, it doesn't work that way, nor it probably won`t. Wattcoin's Proof-of-Energy isn't actually measuring real-world wattage from a wall socket. It's estimating energy consumption through benchmarks, CPU hashing, GPU compute shaders and memory walks. A heater or air conditioner wouldn't work because there's no way for the protocol to verify their power draw cryptographically.
The verifiable part is the hard constraint. The whole system depends on the miner being able to prove the energy was spent doing something the protocol can verify. That's why it's limited to CPU/GPU/ASIC, their behavior can be benchmarked and attested. A random appliance drawing 1500W just generates heat with no cryptographic proof attached.
Your idea is genuinely interesting but faces a trust problem. A Raspberry Pi + smart power meter reading a space heater's wattage could physically measure energy consumption, but the protocol would have no way to know if you're faking the reading, or just sending fabricated numbers. This is the core unsolved problem in "real-world energy" crypto.

What you're actually describing is closer to what projects like Proof of Physical Work are trying to solve, where real-world hardware contributes verifiable work. The challenge is always the oracle problem: how do you trustlessly verify a physical world measurement on-chain?

The honest bottom line for your situation: If electricity is expensive where you are, Wattcoin as currently designed is almost certainly at break even point or unprofitable, that is where tier ratchet kicks in. The math works against you from two directions at once, you're paying more in power than the mined coins are worth, and the protocol's "fair for all hardware" design means expensive electricity is your only real variable. Unlike all other coins where a more efficient ASIC can offset high power costs, Wattcoin deliberately equalizes hardware efficiency, so your electricity rate becomes the single deciding factor in profitability. A miner in Iceland or Norway paying €0.05/kWh will always outcompete someone paying €0.20–0.30/kWh, not because they have better hardware, but purely because their grid is cheaper. The tier ratchet makes this worse over time, as the energy floor doubles each tier, the break-even electricity rate gets lower and lower. That`s why the most competitive Wattcoin miners have their own power source!

Now all that being said I forgot to add. FIAT money is irrelevant here. WTC costs a certain amount of kWh, for Tier1 it is 20kWh. All that matters is energy when we talk about Wattcoin.