The Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto intended.

Judge it by what can be checked rather than by what anyone claims. The contract source is published and verified: recompiling it reproduces the bytecode running on chain, byte for byte, and the instructions to repeat that check yourself are on this site. The compiled interface contains no owner, no pause, no blacklist, no mint function and no upgrade path — not disabled, absent. Supply at genesis was zero and every unit in existence was mined through the same public proof-of-work contract.

What this does not prove is that Bitcoin RXC has value, that anyone will buy it, or that it will be worth anything tomorrow. Those are separate questions, and the answer to all three is that nobody can promise you otherwise.

The chain is proof-of-authority and the validators are operated by the developer. That is a real limitation and it should be stated plainly rather than buried.

What that control allows: refusing to include a transaction in a block, or stopping block production entirely. If the validators stopped, the chain would stop.

What it does not allow: creating RBTX — no mint function exists in the contract; taking, freezing or reversing anyone's balance; changing the contract's rules; or altering history already written to the chain. Validator authority governs whether a block is produced, not what the contract does inside it.

This is the honest trade of a small sovereign chain: transactions cost a fraction of a cent and an ordinary phone can mine, at the price of fewer independent validators than a large public network. If decentralised block production is your requirement, Bitcoin itself is the better answer, and that is not a criticism we would argue with.

It is not a premine, and it is also not nothing — both halves matter.

It is not a premine because nothing was allocated at genesis. Supply at block one was zero, and the only way a unit can come into existence is by solving the proof-of-work challenge and submitting it to the contract. There is no other issuance path, for anyone, including the developer.

What did happen is that the developer mined before public announcement, while difficulty sat at its opening level and nobody else was competing. That is structural to launching any mined currency — Satoshi Nakamoto mined on the order of a million bitcoin under the same conditions in Bitcoin's earliest days — but it is a genuine advantage that later miners do not get, and calling it identical to public mining would be dishonest.

Specific holding addresses and balances are not published here, for the personal safety of the individual concerned. That withholds nothing from anyone auditing the project: the chain is public, every claim transaction since block one is permanently visible, and the full early mining history can be reconstructed from the ledger without this page's help.

Bitcoin RXC is a token that carries out the vision Satoshi Nakamoto set down: a fixed supply of 21,000,000, issuance only through proof of work, halving rewards, and no privileged party anywhere in the system. The same design, rebuilt on a chain where an ordinary person can still afford to mine.

It is not the Bitcoin network itself and is not affiliated with it — different chain, different code, separate history. What it inherits is the idea, not the ledger.

That idea is the part the industry abandoned. Today's tokens are premined, owner-controlled and pausable, and mining Bitcoin now requires a warehouse. Bitcoin RXC exists because the original design was right and deserves to run somewhere the small miner has not been priced out.

Whatever someone will pay, which today is not established. There is no market price, no exchange listing and no external trading. Any figure you see quoted anywhere should be treated as an assertion until there is a market behind it.

Nobody guarantees a price, maintains a floor, or commits to buying anything back. The token could be worth nothing. That is not a disclaimer added for legal cover — it is the accurate position.

Yes. The developer holds Bitcoin RXC and nothing prevents selling it. No lock-up, no vesting contract and no promise not to sell exists, and inventing one now would be worth exactly as much as the promise itself.

What can be verified instead is scale and mechanism: the holding is a small fraction of the 21,000,000 cap, no additional units can be created to add to it, and every movement is visible on chain to anyone watching. You are asked to trust arithmetic you can check, not intentions you cannot.

You do not have to take anyone's word for it. The published source compiles to exactly the bytecode deployed at the contract address, using a specific compiler version and settings that are documented so you can reproduce the result independently. If the source and the deployed code disagreed, that check would fail immediately.

The compiled interface lists every function the contract can perform. There is no owner role, no pause, no blacklist, no seizure, no self-destruct and no proxy or upgrade path. This cuts both ways and the downside is real: if a bug were found, nobody could patch it, and the only available response would be to warn holders.

Bitcoin mining became a warehouse business because the cost of submitting a solution rose with network fees, and small miners lost money confirming their own wins. On this chain that cost is a fraction of a cent, so the barrier that pushed ordinary people out does not apply.

Low difficulty today reflects the fact that almost nobody is mining. Difficulty retargets every 512 claims to hold roughly a one-minute interval, so if the world starts mining, it rises automatically and issuance stays on the same schedule. The reward halves every 2,100,000 claims regardless of how many people participate.

Soon. Opening mining is the plan and the work is under way — the miner, the setup guide and the wallet instructions are being prepared for release at richbtx.com. No tool has been published yet, and until it is, this section will say so plainly rather than imply otherwise.

It is worth understanding how the currency this one is modelled on actually began, because the pattern repeats and it is rarely told accurately.

Bitcoin's genesis block was mined on 3 January 2009. The software went public six days later, and for roughly a year almost nobody used it. Hal Finney ran a node in the first week; beyond a handful of cryptographers, the network was one person and a laptop. Satoshi Nakamoto mined the overwhelming majority of everything issued in that period — on the order of a million bitcoin — not by privilege, but because there was no competition to speak of. Difficulty sat at its floor. A home computer found blocks in minutes. The first known exchange of bitcoin for anything real came more than a year later, in May 2010, when ten thousand of them bought two pizzas.

Nobody calls that a scam, because it was not one. It is simply what the opening period of a mined currency looks like: the people present at the start receive most of what is issued, because issuance does not wait for an audience to arrive.

Bitcoin RXC is in that same opening period now, with one honest difference: Bitcoin's software was public and unnoticed, while this one is not yet published. The outcome so far is the same — early supply concentrated with the person running the miner — but the mechanism is not, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

The difference that matters is that Bitcoin's early window closed forever and cannot be reopened. This one has not closed. When the miner is released, difficulty will still be near its floor, the reward will still be 5 Bitcoin RXC per claim, and it will still be far from the first halving at 2,100,000 claims. Whoever arrives early will arrive genuinely early, on a chain where mining costs a fraction of a cent instead of requiring a warehouse.

In the meantime the contract is permissionless and immutable. Anyone able to implement the algorithm from the specification can mine today without asking anyone's approval. What is unreleased is the convenience software, not the right.

The contract keeps working. It has no owner, no dependency on any server and no component anyone can switch off — it lives in the chain's state and executes whenever a transaction reaches it.

The honest qualifier is the one above: the chain needs validators. If block production stopped and nobody else ran a node, the chain would halt, and Bitcoin RXC would be frozen in place rather than destroyed. This is the concentration risk of a young sovereign chain and it is real.

Query the contract address directly at the public RPC endpoint. Read totalSupply and compare it against the mined figure shown on this page. Fetch the deployed bytecode and check it for the selectors of owner() or paused() — they are not there. Compile the published source with the documented settings and confirm it reproduces the deployed code.

Every number on this site is read from the chain in your browser, not served from a database. If the protocol stopped issuing, the live figures above would stop moving.