Sixbit (6BIT) – community-maintained fork
This is a community fork maintained by Shears Mining. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the original 6bit team. The original team stopped maintaining Sixbit, the chain was stuck at block 34,082 from 12 October 2026, and their announcement thread is no longer active. All code is open source so anyone can review it.Status: live- Sixbit Core 2.2.0 activated at block 34,083 on 12 November 2026. The chain is moving again (34,300+).
- Same coin: all history up to block 34,082, balances, addresses, supply, reward and halvings are unchanged.
What 2.2.0 changed (from block 34,083)- ASERT difficulty with Shears StallGuard: difficulty adjusts every block and eases off if no block is found for 2 hours, so a big miner leaving can't freeze the chain again.
- AuxPoW merge-mining alongside Bitcoin (chain ID 6006). Ordinary solo mining still works.
Wallets and sourcehttps://github.com/Shears-Mining/6bit/releases/tag/v2.2.0(Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, with SHA256SUMS)
Wallet stuck at 34,082? Upgrade to 2.2.0 and add our public node:
addnode=stratum.shears.co.uk:16666
solo, 0% fee: stratum.shears.co.uk:3610 · merge-mined: stratum.shears.co.uk:3402 ·
https://sha256-mining.shears.co.ukExchange: NestEx ($SIX)
Credits: Sixbit by the original 6bit team. ASERT by Mark Lundeberg and Jonathan Toomim (Bitcoin Cash Node). AuxPoW by the Namecoin developers. StallGuard by Shears Mining.
Updates will be posted as replies in this thread.
Andy, Shears Mining
