WAM Coin — a RandomX fork of Bitcoin Core v28.1, launching 15 September 2026.
Review welcome.
WAM is a fork of Bitcoin Core v28.1, not a rewrite. Roughly 250,000 lines of
networking, script and wallet code are inherited from a codebase that has been
adversarially reviewed for fifteen years. About 3,000 lines are ours.
What differs:
* 22,000,000 hard cap, 2-minute blocks, 50 WAM initial subsidy
* RandomX proof of work, so CPUs stay competitive
* DarkGravityWave v3, retargeting every block
* A consensus-enforced 5% treasury output that stops permanently at block 400,000
* Founder reserve of 2,000,000 locked in genesis by OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY,
releasing 20% a year to 2030
Founder + treasury is 12.50% of supply. Both are disclosed and enforced by
every node.
Every upstream change is a scripted, anchored transformation in
scripts/patch_upstream.py — no patch files — so --list prints every difference
from Bitcoin Core with its rationale. There has been no third-party security
audit.
Testnet is live. Two seed nodes, France and Singapore. A node finds the network
by itself through DNS; there is a prebuilt release on GitHub, 11 MB, needing
libevent and libsqlite3 and nothing else.
github.com/wam-coin-official/wam-coin · wamcoin.org
I would value review of the consensus changes in src/wam/ in particular.
Bug bounty
Report privately. Do not post a consensus or security bug in this thread — a
public consensus bug is an attack that has not happened yet. Email
wam.coin.official@proton.me, or open a GitHub Security Advisory on the
repository. SECURITY.md has the details.
In scope: src/wam/ (consensus, subsidy, treasury, DGW, RandomX), the stratum
pool in pool/, scripts/patch_upstream.py, and the release tooling.
Out of scope: inherited Bitcoin Core code — report those upstream; DoS against
the testnet; anything needing physical access or social engineering.
Rewards, paid in mainnet WAM after launch, from the founder reserve:
* Consensus split, inflation beyond the 22,000,000 cap, or theft of pool funds — 50,000 WAM
* Remote crash, or a way to steal another miner's shares — 10,000 WAM
* Everything else accepted — 1,000 WAM
Say plainly: WAM has no market value and may never have one. These figures are
units of a coin that does not trade. If that is not worth your time, I would
rather you knew before you spent it.
Duplicates and already-known issues do not qualify. I decide what is verified,
and I will publish every accepted report with credit once it is fixed.
