TrueNorth (NORTH)
A Canadian coin you mine with a CPU
No premine · No presale · No founder allocation · No protocol dev fee
Mainnet live since 2026-10-12 00:00 UTC
What it isTrueNorth is a fork of Bitcoin Core with its own proof of work, RandomNorth. That's RandomX with a custom salt and a seed key that changes every 2048 blocks, and it's built so ordinary CPUs can mine it. Otherwise it works similar to Bitcoin, with the same wallet and RPC tools.
New addresses start with
north1z. They're P2QRH, so an output only holds a hash and unspent coins aren't exposed to a future quantum attacker. Signatures are Schnorr for now and post-quantum schemes can come later by soft fork.
Supply gets to about 1.06 billion when the halvings finish around 2050. After that 8 NORTH a block keeps going forever (about 2.1 million a year) so there's no hard cap.
Specifications| Ticker | NORTH (testnet: tNORTH) |
| Algorithm | RandomNorth (RandomX variant, CPU) |
| Block time | 2 minutes, LWMA difficulty adjustment every block |
| Block reward | 512 NORTH, halving every 1,051,200 blocks (about 4 years) |
| Tail emission | Never below 8 NORTH per block |
| Coinbase maturity | 100 blocks (about 3.3 hours) |
| Reorg limit | 72 blocks |
| Addresses | P2QRH, bech32m witness v2, north1z… |
| Ports | P2P 9555, RPC 9554 (testnet4: 49555 / 49554) |
| Genesis | 2026-10-12 00:00 UTC |
Download and verifyGet it from the official releases page. The latest is v30.5.2, and if you're on Windows you need v30.5.1 or newer or the miner won't start.
github.com/truenorth-project/truenorth/releasesIf you want to check the signature. The release key's primary fingerprint is:
3F0B AE04 5861 5427 B8CA 935E 3E24 2DF5 E447 8AE5
GPG shows the signing subkey (895B 7591 … D92C 626D) first, that's normal. Compare the primary against more than one source, eg.
github.com/septentrion-dev.gpg and
keys.openpgp.org.
MiningThis is how I set it up with the miner that comes in the release. You run your own node and any block you find pays you directly. There's a full walkthrough for Linux, macOS and Windows at
tncoin.xyz/get-started, which is the community site. The short version, once your node has synced:
./bin/truenorthd -daemon
./bin/truenorth-cli createwallet mining
./bin/truenorth-cli -rpcwallet=mining getnewaddress
./bin/truenorth-miner -chain=main -datadir=$HOME/.truenorth -address=north1z... -threads=8
Encrypt the wallet before anything gets mined into it. Use one thread per physical core and turn on huge pages if you're on Linux.
Plan on about 3 GB of free RAM for the node and miner together. I had a 4 GB VM lock up because they didn't fit. Bumped it to 5 GB and it's been fine since.
Stock XMRig won't work without changes, because of the salt and the seed rotation.
PoolsIf you'd rather have smaller steadier payouts these are the two I know of. Check what you're signing up for first. The project's
mining policy asks that no pool goes over 33%, and it prefers peer-to-peer pools.
| Pool | Pool fee | Miner dev fee | Payout | Miner source |
| AriaPool | 3% | 1% of mining time | PPLNS, 1 NORTH min | Not public |
| IronPool | 2% | None | PPLNS, 0.01 NORTH min | GPL |
LinksOfficialCommunityStay safeThere has been no presale, ICO, airdrop or giveaway. The project isn't on Twitter/X, Discord, Telegram, Matrix or YouTube, so anything there claiming to be official isn't. Nobody from it will message you first or ask for your seed phrase. If someone does, they're trying to rob you.
I'll delete scam replies and price spam in this thread. Questions about nodes, mining, and pools - post them below.
