Why a rebirthKittehCoin was launched in 2013 with a simple, honest brief: be a real cat coin on its own chain, give the dog coins a run, and belong to the people who mined it, spent it, and kept the nodes alive.
That brief did not survive the years that followed.
Development drifted. Contributors with other agendas stepped in. Stewardship became inconsistent. The original chain was left exposed to dumps, neglect, and a reputation it could not outrun. Later, another party tried to keep the name alive by rebranding on the
same damaged ledger. The damage was already done. You cannot polish a history the market has already priced as broken.
After that came the novelty era: the name appeared as a token on somebody else’s smart-contract chain. That is not KittehCoin. A token riding another network is a label. KittehCoin was always meant to be a
coin — its own peer-to-peer network, its own miners, its own addresses, its own rules.
So we did the only honest thing left.
We rebuilt it from the ground up on current Litecoin Core source, repaired the original consensus and client problems, and started a
new genesis. No premine. No recycled chain. No borrowed contract. A community coin, again, with a clean ledger.
Because the name has been copied, forked, and tokenized, this project is published as
KittehCoin 2.0 with ticker
MEOWS (not MEOW), so nobody has to guess which network they are on.
This is not a wrap, a rebase, or a ticker swap.
KittehCoin 2.0 does not continue the old MEOW UTXO set. Old wallets, old private keys, and old explorer balances do not credit here. That is the point: a fresh start the original chain could no longer provide.
What KittehCoin 2.0 is- An independent Scrypt proof-of-work coin
- A new genesis and a new P2P magic, so it cannot sync to legacy or impostor nets
- Fair launch: no premine, no founder allocation, no ICO
- Community first: mine it, run a node, hold it, spend it
- Same spirit as 2013 — lottery-style block rewards, 60-second blocks, K-addresses
What it is not- Not a token on Base, BSC, ETH, or any foreign contract
- Not a rename of the abandoned original ledger
- Not Meowcoin, Catcoin, or any look-alike ticker
- Not a revival of MEOW balances from 2013–2017
Coin specificationsName: KittehCoin 2.0
Ticker: MEOWS
Algorithm: Scrypt (proof of work)
Block time: 60 seconds
Difficulty: Kimoto Gravity Well, retargeting every block
Maximum supply: 25,000,000,000 MEOWS
Premine: None
Genesis reward: 1,000 MEOWS (fixed)
Address format: Legacy P2PKH, version 45 — addresses begin with
KWIF: 0xAD (compressed keys from Core begin with
S)
Bech32 HRP: meows (available; default wallet use is legacy K)
P2P port: 22566
RPC port: 22565
Magic bytes: 0x4D 0x45 0x4F 0x57 (“MEOW” identity, new chain)
DNS seeds: seed1.kittehcoin.ca · seed2.kittehcoin.ca
Default datadir: KittehCoin
Source base: Litecoin Core 0.21.x lineage, KittehCoin consensus restored and modernized
SegWit: Active from genesis
MWEB / Taproot: Present in source, not activated at launch
Genesis- Hash: 4f2f309ba49ca94f1a0ad98186845fe85a0b3de2ce5cc5b541057348cc6ea72a
- Merkle root: 05209a5929ded8af442a64b290665e5124c86c4008db110efb18f0cec82ca882
- Timestamp: 16 August 2026 — “AP 16/Aug/2026 Ukraine launches one of largest aerial attacks of war”
- nTime / nNonce / nBits: 1786896000 / 190810 / 0x1e0ffff0
Block reward scheduleSame shape as classic KittehCoin: a guaranteed floor of 1,000 MEOWS, with a deterministic lottery up to the tier cap. After block 700,000 the reward is a flat 2,000 MEOWS. Cumulative minting is capped at 25 billion.
Height Reward
----------------- --------------------------------
0 (genesis) 1,000 MEOWS (fixed)
1 – 200,000 1,000 – 50,000 MEOWS
200,001 – 400,000 1,000 – 25,000 MEOWS
400,001 – 500,000 1,000 – 12,500 MEOWS
500,001 – 600,000 1,000 – 6,250 MEOWS
600,001 – 700,000 1,000 – 3,125 MEOWS
700,001+ 2,000 MEOWS (flat)
MiningScrypt CPU / GPU / ASIC as with other Scrypt coins.
Official poolhttps://pool.kittehcoin.caStratum:
stratum+tcp://stratum.kittehcoin.ca:3333Point any Scrypt miner at the stratum host. Pay out to a
K… address from KittehCoin 2.0 Core.
Community pools are welcome. Please sync against this genesis hash before advertising a MEOWS pool — the old MEOW network is a different chain.
ResourcesWebsite: https://www.kittehcoin.caSource / wallet: https://github.com/kittehcoin/KittehCoin2.0Pool: https://pool.kittehcoin.caPaper wallet: in the repository under
PaperWallet/ — generate offline, import with
importprivkeyOriginal ANN (legacy MEOW, 2016): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1340334.0Exchanges and explorers will be posted here as they come online. Do not send MEOWS to a MEOW, MEWC, or ERC-20/Base “kitteh” deposit address.
Node connection# kittehcoin.conf (optional)
listen=1
server=1
port=22566
rpcport=22565
addnode=seed1.kittehcoin.ca
addnode=seed2.kittehcoin.ca
Confirm you are on the right chain:
getblockchaininfo
# "chain": "main"
# genesis / best-block work should descend from
# 4f2f309ba49ca94f1a0ad98186845fe85a0b3de2ce5cc5b541057348cc6ea72a
A note to the original communityIf you mined MEOW in 2013, argued in this forum in 2014, or kept a paper wallet in a drawer: thank you. That coin mattered. This project does not pretend the old chain can be unwound, and it does not ask you to treat a token as the same thing.
KittehCoin 2.0 is the network KittehCoin was supposed to be: independent, mineable, open source, and owned by the people who show up.
Nine lives. This is the one that starts clean.
MEOWS — KittehCoin 2.0
A real coin. A fresh chain. A community rebirth.
