[ANN] Bitcoin Origins - Experimental Bitcoin 0.1-inspired blockchain

[Nicholas Magnabosco]

[ANN] Bitcoin Origins - Experimental Bitcoin 0.1-inspired blockchain

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a personal open-source project I’ve been working on called Bitcoin Origins.

Bitcoin Origins is an experimental cryptocurrency project inspired by the original 2009 Bitcoin release. The goal is to recreate the simplicity and old-school architecture of early Bitcoin while running on a completely independent blockchain with its own Genesis Block, network, and Proof-of-Work mining.

Main features

• Independent blockchain
• Custom Genesis Block
• Proof-of-Work mining
• Peer-to-peer network
• Default TCP port: 17474
• Windows client
• Open-source code
• Separate Genesis Miner utility
• MIT licensed

Development

The project is based on the architecture of early Bitcoin and is mainly intended for learning, experimentation, and understanding how Bitcoin works at a lower level.

The current build uses the following dependencies:

Code:

Boost        1.35.0
Berkeley DB  4.7.25
wxWidgets    2.8.9
OpenSSL      0.9.8h

Genesis Miner

I also created a separate Genesis Miner tool used to search for a valid nonce for the custom Genesis Block.

It supports multi-threaded CPU mining and displays the current hash rate and mining progress.

GitHub

Bitcoin Origins on GitHub

The source code and Windows releases are available there.

Status

Bitcoin Origins is still experimental software and may contain bugs or incomplete features.

This is not intended as an investment, token sale, presale, or commercial project. I’m building it mainly as a technical and educational experiment.

Feedback, testing, code review, and contributions are welcome.

Thanks for checking it out!

[paulmbcufc]

Zero connections

[yoshikiazuma]

Yes I would like you to link me the standalone miner that you did you said you have?

I'm operating this on my system and hitting the generate button only uses a very small percent of my CPU usage

Would the standalone miner where me being able to increase usage of my CPU core count higher?

IAM finding blocks even though it shows a 0 connection maybe it's a glitch or something I'm not quite too sure?

How does this work does this run mining offline without connections?

[paulmbcufc]

Yes I would like you to link me the standalone miner that you did you said you have?

I'm operating this on my system and hitting the generate button only uses a very small percent of my CPU usage

Would the standalone miner where me being able to increase usage of my CPU core count higher?

IAM finding blocks even though it shows a 0 connection maybe it's a glitch or something I'm not quite too sure?

How does this work does this run mining offline without connections?

Did you open port 17474 ? And still showing zero connections ? But finding blocks ?

I didn't open the port