"It's nice how anyone with just a CPU can compete fairly equally right now."
(It's nice that now everyone can compete fairly with just a CPU.)
—— Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009
This is a sentence written by Satoshi Nakamoto at the beginning of Bitcoin's birth.
At that time, there were no roaring mines, no monopolized ASIC machines. Any ordinary person could simply turn on their home computer, run a simple program, and fairly participate in the construction of this decentralized network, earning their own rewards.
However, over time, capital entered the field, and computing power became highly concentrated due to the emergence of ASIC mining machines. Ordinary people's CPUs were forced out, and the utopia that Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned, where "everyone can mine," seems to be drifting further away.
Until February 2024, Scash was born.
It is not to subvert Bitcoin, but to regain the 'soul' that Bitcoin has lost.
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What is #Scash?
(The trunk of Bitcoin Core + the heart of RandomX)
Scash has made an extremely bold yet reasonable integration:
1. It inherits all the solid foundations of Bitcoin: implemented based on the popular Bitcoin Core client branch, with the same consensus rules and issuance plan as Bitcoin, and even supports the latest technologies like Taproot.
2. It injects a strong anti-ASIC antibody: abandoning the SHA-256 that leads to computing power monopoly, integrating the RandomX algorithm that Monero is proud of.
What does this mean?
This means that Scash is currently the most friendly Bitcoin fork for ordinary home computers on Earth. You do not need to buy expensive mining machines, nor do you need to find cheap industrial electricity; your CPU at hand is your printing machine.
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Extreme 'economic purism': refusing VC harvesting
In today's cryptocurrency world filled with 'early pre-mining', 'VC shares', and 'developer taxes', Scash has chosen the most retro, most difficult, and also the fairest path.
The economic model of Scash is a 1:1 replica of the spirit of Satoshi Nakamoto:
Total supply fixed at 21 million
Halving every 4 years (scarcity assurance)
100% PoW proof of work (every coin is produced by computing power)
0 pre-mined (the project team does not have a single free chip)
0 developer tax (no siphoning)
0 VC (no capital waiting to dump)
This is the absolute fair launch. In the Scash network, there is no privileged class, only maintainers of consensus.
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Why is Scash important?
"Decentralization" should not just be a slogan.
When mining rights are monopolized by a few large mining pools, censorship resistance becomes a joke. Scash's mission is to redistribute computing power back to thousands of households' bedrooms and studies around the world.
* No need for fiat currency: directly exchange computing power for value, this is the purest entry into cryptocurrency.
* Seamlessly compatible ecology: Based on Bitcoin Core, Scash is naturally compatible with Bitcoin wallets, infrastructure, and even the Lightning Network. Developers only need to make minimal effort to transplant Bitcoin ecological applications to Scash.
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Roadmap: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Scash does not paint grand visions, it chooses pragmatism.
The roadmap of the community is very clear: keep pace with Bitcoin Core.
Scash will update in sync with the Bitcoin mainnet upgrades, ensuring that the security and vulnerability fixes of the network are always at the top level of the industry. This is not only a commitment to security but also an extreme embodiment of developer friendliness.
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Forward
In 2009, many of us missed the opportunity to mine Bitcoin with a home computer.
At that time, we did not understand, or we did not care.
Today, Scash gives an opportunity for 'archive re-reading'.
Scash is not just a cryptocurrency; it is a social experiment, a resilient return to the ideals of decentralization.
Scash is telling the world: in this era of computing power hegemony, the CPU of ordinary people is still powerful, and individual nodes are still important.
Scash is a social experiment about 'returning', proving that the world described by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, where 'fair competition with home computers' exists, is not an unreachable utopia.
In this era of highly centralized computing power, Scash rekindles the light of individual nodes, inviting everyone with a CPU to jointly defend the free territory of decentralization.
Scash (Satoshi Cash),
Make Mining Home Again.
Bring mining back to the home.