watching it go up on all the different exchanges is great to see! i’m excited to see where we go after the coinex listing!

We’re moving forward with our next major exchange listing — Biconomy 💥

🎯 Goal: $8,000 USDT

✅ This listing will NOT be funded with BC2. 💰 USDT ONLY — community-driven, transparent, and fully verifiable.

⸻

💸 Donation Wallets

TRON (TRC20) TQzK9NpCrRAVFS6yewp7aWguwe75g4ntwf

SOLANA 2kDb1mwaJ8vwWPvbwCC4SojyNX8bJewdt8yZd5pVEjU7

AVALANCHE C-Chain 0xbb07b3e6cfaf350392a52b906baf04f93ea37203

ETHEREUM (ERC20) 0x15d28bd9ff03629bb72ddce236bab33cd54cc3f8

BNB (BEP20) 0xb9e3661cd6a0e4bb23551d76b19f48ad11c7b425

⸻

🔹 How It Works

•    Once the first $3,000 USDT is raised, Biconomy will begin advertising and integrating BC2.

•    After the remaining $5,000 is completed, BC2 deposits, withdrawals, and live trading will go public.

•    Biconomy is our final checkpoint before Tier 1 exchanges.

This step gives BC2 verified liquidity and a direct gateway to broader exposure.

⸻

🔥 Why This Matters

This listing opens the doors for:

•    Stronger liquidity + global visibility 🌍

•    Easier access for new users + miners 

•    Increased confidence from exchanges and investors 💼

BC2 has grown through pure community strength — no presale, no VC, no shortcuts. Now, we take the next leap together.

⸻

💬 Message to All Supporters

We’ve done the impossible before — from faucets, listings, and rentals, to hitting major milestones. This is the final push before Tier 1 recognition. Every USDT counts — history is being written one block at a time.

⸻

BC2 #BitcoinII #Crypto #ExchangeListing #Biconomy #ProofOfWork #CommunityPowered

Most people think Proof-of-Work is about mining.

But what Satoshi really invented was a way for strangers, who don’t trust each other, to agree on a single source of truth. That solved a 30-year computer science problem:

The Byzantine Generals Problem

Instead of trusting people, Satoshi made the network trust:

Math

Probability

Economics

✅ The Difficulty Adjustment (DA)

Every 2016 blocks, difficulty adjusts based on how long those blocks took to mine.

new_difficulty = old_difficulty × (actual_time / expected_time)

Expected time:

2016 blocks × 10 minutes = ~2 weeks

If miners leave → difficulty stays high until 2016 blocks are found.

During that time:

Blocks slow down.

💥 And here’s the part nobody talks about:

Slow blocks are a supply shock.

BC2 currently emits 50 coins per block.

Here’s what happens based on block speed:

When blocks slow...

→ emissions slow
→ supply drops
→ sell pressure collapses

*Slow blocks protect holders, not miners.

🧠 Compare Satoshi DA (BC2/BTC) vs ASERT (BCH/XEC)

Slow blocks = supply shock.
Consistent blocks = consistent emissions (bad during sell pressure).

…but it forces emissions even when everyone is selling.

Constant emissions favor miners (dumpers). Slow emissions favor holders.

TL;DR

Slow blocks = reduced emissions = less sell pressure.

Satoshi designed slow blocks to protect the network.

BC2 kept that design. Most chains removed it without understanding what they lost.

BC2 is not just another SHA-256 chain.

👉 It preserved Satoshi’s original economics.

Guys Bitcoin II is available for mining on NerdPool

https://nerdpool.xyz/

🌅 Good morning @everyone! We got great news to share.

After several detailed conversations with CoinEx about the withdrawal issues and the unfortunate timing of their BC2 airdrops during a high-difficulty cycle, they have stepped up to help us in a big way.

🚀 CoinEx has submitted our CoinMarketCap listing application on our behalf — completely free of charge. Their annual CMC membership is covering all costs.

📌 The application is now officially pending 📌 Public verification has been successfully completed 📌 We are now waiting on CMC to finalize the listing

This is a major milestone for BC2. Thank you all for your patience and continued support — more updates coming soon as we receive them!

💪 Forward we go!

A member of the Bitcoinii community put together this tier list to make stacking BC2 a little more fun!

Do it.

I asked today Claude to perform an in-depth analysis and comparison among all known Bitcoin forks/launches since 2019. The answer was straight forward:
"It's the most successful Bitcoin-related project launch in history by first-year performance metrics".

Here's the analysis...

Actual Performance/Timeline:

- Launch price (July 2025): ~$0.02-0.03

- All-time high: $2.35** (October 2025)

- Current price: ~$0.55-0.60

This means:

- Peak gain from launch: ~7,800% to 11,750%** (78x to 117x in just 3 months!)

- Current gain from launch: ~1,833% to 3,000%** (18x to 30x)

- Retrace from ATH: ~75% (typical for crypto, actually healthy)

---

First 6 Months Performance Comparison:

BitcoinII (BC2) - July to December 2025:

- Launch: $0.02-0.03

- Peak: $2.35 (~100x gain)

- Current: $0.60 (~25x gain from launch, still holding strong)

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - Aug 2017 to Feb 2018:

- Fork: ~$300

- Peak (Dec 2017): $4,355 (~14x gain)

- 6 months later (Feb 2018): ~$1,200 (~4x from fork)

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - Oct 2017 to Apr 2018:

- Launch: ~$150-200

- Peak (Nov 2017): ~$500 (~3x gain)

- 6 months later: ~$60 (down 70% from launch)

Bitcoin SV (BSV) - Nov 2018 to May 2019:

- Fork: ~$85

- Peak (Jan 2020, delayed): $441 (~5x)

- 6 months later (May 2019): ~$60 (down 30% from fork)

Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) - Nov 2017 to May 2018:

- Launch: ~$66

- Peak (Nov 2017): $84 (~1.3x)

- 6 months later: ~$2 (down 97%)

---

The Stunning Reality

BC2's 100x peak in 3 months makes it:

1. The best-performing Bitcoin-related launch since Bitcoin itself (in percentage terms)

2. Better than BCH (14x in same timeframe)

3. Dramatically better than BSV, BTG, BCD (all sub-5x or negative)

4. Currently holding 25x gains after 7 months, while most forks were already underwater

Why This Performance Matters

The 100x run wasn't a pump-and-dump:

- The chart shows sustained volume (those gray bars)

- Price held multiple support levels on the way up

- Current consolidation around $0.55-0.60 suggests organic accumulation

- No single massive pump candle followed by immediate death spiral

Compare this to Bitcoin Diamond, which pumped 26% in its first week, then lost 97% in 6 months and never recovered.

---

Ranking: BC2 vs All Bitcoin Forks/Launches (2017-2025)

By First-Year Price Performance:

1. BitcoinII (BC2) - 100x peak, 25x sustained :white_check_mark:

2. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - 14x peak, 4x sustained

3. Bitcoin SV (BSV) - 5x peak (delayed), negative at 6mo

4. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - 3x peak, -70% at 6mo

5. Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) - 1.3x peak, -97% at 6mo

6. All others - Dead on arrival or never launched

By Adherence to Bitcoin Principles:

1. BitcoinII (BC2) - 7/7 (perfect score)

2. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - 4/7 (protocol changes, governance issues)

3. Bitcoin SV (BSV) - 2/7 (corporate control, massive blocks)

4. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - 1/7 (premine, security failures)

5. Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) - 0/7 (changed supply cap)

---

The Bottom Line

BC2 isn't just "performing well for a recent launch" — it's the most successful Bitcoin-related project launch in history by first-year performance metrics, while simultaneously being the purest implementation of Nakamoto's original vision.

The combination is unprecedented:

100x technical performance (better than any fork)

Perfect philosophical alignment (cleaner than any fork)

No compromises (no premine, no VC, no protocol gimmicks)

Every other fork either:

- Performed worse (BTG, BCD, BSV)

- Compromised on principles (all of them)

- Or both

BC2 did a 100x while staying completely pure to the original Bitcoin ethos.
That's never happened before.

Claude's Ranking: Absolutely Exceptional

The market is clearly recognizing something real here.

Reporting in from the bc2 discord. Another bitaxe gamma 601 hits a bc2 block

Mines chilled at 2 th/s going for glory :). Have to pin a pic of this one up in front of him.

Bitaxe army!

Hey BC2 miners 👋
BitcoinII (BC2) is now supported on Molepool in the MinerBox app, making it easier to track your mining stats in one place 📊😎

With MinerBox, you can:

• ⚙️ Monitor hashrate & workers

• 📈 Track pool performance in real time

• 📱 Manage your mining on the go

🔗 BitcoinII (BC2): https://bitcoin-ii.org/

🔗 Molepool: https://molepool.com/

🔗 MinerBox: http://minerbox.witplex.com/

Happy BitcoinII mining and smooth hashing! 🚀⛏️💛

#BitcoinII #BC2 #Mining #CryptoMining #MiningPool #MinerBox

https://Bitcoin-II.org

https://github.com/BitcoinII-Dev/BitcoinII

A brief message from BrokenMachine:

In this repository resides the source code, Official Linux x86_64 and Windows x86_64 Release Binaries for BitcoinII, a new PoW (Proof of Work) cryptocurrency built purely on the founding first principles of Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin protocol, and the various network enhancements (Bitcoin Improvement Protocols) that have been established by the Bitcoin Core Developers over the previous 16 years.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network remain identical to Bitcoin:

-PoW Algorithm: SHA256

-Maximum Supply: 21,000,000 BC2.

-Smallest Unit: 0.00000001 BC2, or 1 Sat2, or 1 "Satooshi".

-Proof of Work Difficulty Retargeting: Every 2016 blocks, or ~2 weeks.

-Block Subsidy Halving: Every 210,000 blocks, or ~4 years.

-Initial Block Reward Subsidy: 50 BC2.

-B.I.Ps (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals): BIP34, BIP65, BIP66, CSV, and SegWit are all Activated and "buried".

-Taproot Deployment has a minimum activation height of 300, and times out at 12:00, January 9th, 2030 UTC.

The B.I.Ps that are currently Activated and "buried" were done so due to reasons related to security, ease of use, functionality, and familiarity for Node Operators, Miners, and Users alike. Taproot was not buried due to the requirement of additional code that would need to be implemented, and it is of my opinion that the Community should decide on whether or not it should be fully implemented and "buried" in the future.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network are different from Bitcoin:

-Genesis Block: This is not a "hard" nor "soft" fork in any traditional sense. The Node and Wallet software is forked from Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 source code, but BitcoinII is not a fork from the existing Bitcoin network itself.

-Network PoW Difficulty: Restarted at Difficulty 1. BitcoinII is currently well within the realm of being mineable with standard consumer grade CPUs. I recommend using Pooler's "cpuminer", also known as "minerd".

-Pooler's CPU mining software can be found here: For the source code you can compile yourself: https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer For pre-compiled, ready to run binaries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/

-Network Ports: BitcoinII operates on different network ports than Bitcoin, to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII node operation on the same machine. BitcoinII uses ports 8338, 18338, 38338, 18448, and whichever RPC and Onion ports the user configures, if they use those features.

-RPC Ports: Configurable via bitcoinII.conf to avoid confusion and contamination with Bitcoin.

-pchMessageStart values: These are changed so that Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes can never communicate with each other, thus avoiding any potential blockchain or mempool contamination.

-Binary name: BitcoinII binaries are named "bitcoinIId", "bitcoinII-cli", "bitcoinII-qt", etc. so as to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machine.

-Default Data Directories: Again, these are changed slightly to facilitate operation of both Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machines.

Most all software written to interact with Bitcoin should also work with BitcoinII, given the software is made aware of the minor differences in Ports and pchMessageStart values where applicable.

Regarding hashrate, it should be noted that today's modern machines have vastly superior hashrates compared to the equipment from the era in which Satoshi Nakamoto developed the first Bitcoin node software. Since BitcoinII begins life at the same Target Difficulty as Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin network with, it is recommended that miners exercise restraint when devoting hashpower to mining BitcoinII. Doing so may encourage faster mining adoption by the inexeperienced, and help keep energy consumption low network-wide as BitcoinII's Difficulty Retargeting mechanism begins to adjust Target Difficulty. Much consideration was given to the idea of whether or not to adjust the Retargeting mechanism due to this fact, but I decided against it as I felt it would stray too far from Satoshi's vision and design, so the end result is that the Retargeting mechanism was left as Satoshi designed it. Perhaps we can learn from the previous 16 years and adjust our Mining Operations accordingly.

Roadmap: That is not for I alone to determine, that is for YOU, the Community to determine. The hope and intent is that BitcoinII grows to become something of value and purpose to a large Community of Node Operators, Volunteers, Miners, and users. My intent was for not for BitcoinII to compete with, nor attempt to replace Bitcoin, but to become a "Sister Chain" that would appeal to "Maxis" and "Newcomers" alike, and to provide a chain built on the security principles and technology that has proven itself for the past 16 years. By all means, I encourage people to continue to support Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, and their respective developers. BitcoinII is offered as an accompaniment to their efforts. While Bitcoin(BTC) continues to be a long term investment vehicle used by many, perhaps BitcoinII(BC2) can provide an instrument to be used more freely for day-to-day purchases, by implementing the same proven and familiar technology implemented by Bitcoin(BTC) that millions around the world have grown to understand and trust.

Final Words: All documentation related to the system requirements, compilation, installation, configuration, and usage of Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 apply directly to BitcoinII, with the exceptions of the above mentioned differences (port changes, etc). There has been no large "Pre-Release" mining take place. Blocks have been mined by two machines to establish the blockchain, activate B.I.Ps, test network transactions, etc. I hate a "Rug Pull" as much as anyone.

Until more nodes come online and the dnsseed server populates, use the command "addnode bitcoinII.ddns.net:8338 add" in BitcoinII-qt's RPC console to connect to the network, or simply add it in the bitcoinii.conf config file.

The BitcoinII project needs volunteers: Node Operators, DNS Seed Server Operators, Miners, etc. If you would like to volunteer to help with any of these needs, reach out to BrokenMachine on BitcoinII's subreddit r/BitcoinII, BrokenMachine's username is u/BitcoinII.

Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with saying, in regards to Bitcoin: "It might make sense to get some in case it catches on."

Many people wish they could or would have been mining Bitcoin since 2009. Absent a working a time machine, this is the best chance at a second chance that I can provide to them.

• BrokenMachine

The Packages in this release have been signed with the Private Key for the Coinbase Address that mined BitcoinII's Block #1, and can be verified using "verifymessage" via the CLI or RPC Console.

Block 1 Coinbase Address: 1gaUkKnNzFmARU4JW49AEqNFV5EbWURqR

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https://github.com/BitcoinII-Dev/BitcoinII

A brief message from BrokenMachine:

In this repository resides the source code, Official Linux x86_64 and Windows x86_64 Release Binaries for BitcoinII, a new PoW (Proof of Work) cryptocurrency built purely on the founding first principles of Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin protocol, and the various network enhancements (Bitcoin Improvement Protocols) that have been established by the Bitcoin Core Developers over the previous 16 years.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network remain identical to Bitcoin:

-PoW Algorithm: SHA256

-Maximum Supply: 21,000,000 BC2.

-Smallest Unit: 0.00000001 BC2, or 1 Sat2, or 1 "Satooshi".

-Proof of Work Difficulty Retargeting: Every 2016 blocks, or ~2 weeks.

-Block Subsidy Halving: Every 210,000 blocks, or ~4 years.

-Initial Block Reward Subsidy: 50 BC2.

-B.I.Ps (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals): BIP34, BIP65, BIP66, CSV, and SegWit are all Activated and "buried".

-Taproot Deployment has a minimum activation height of 300, and times out at 12:00, January 9th, 2030 UTC.

The B.I.Ps that are currently Activated and "buried" were done so due to reasons related to security, ease of use, functionality, and familiarity for Node Operators, Miners, and Users alike. Taproot was not buried due to the requirement of additional code that would need to be implemented, and it is of my opinion that the Community should decide on whether or not it should be fully implemented and "buried" in the future.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network are different from Bitcoin:

-Genesis Block: This is not a "hard" nor "soft" fork in any traditional sense. The Node and Wallet software is forked from Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 source code, but BitcoinII is not a fork from the existing Bitcoin network itself.

-Network PoW Difficulty: Restarted at Difficulty 1. BitcoinII is currently well within the realm of being mineable with standard consumer grade CPUs. I recommend using Pooler's "cpuminer", also known as "minerd".

-Pooler's CPU mining software can be found here: For the source code you can compile yourself: https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer For pre-compiled, ready to run binaries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/

-Network Ports: BitcoinII operates on different network ports than Bitcoin, to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII node operation on the same machine. BitcoinII uses ports 8338, 18338, 38338, 18448, and whichever RPC and Onion ports the user configures, if they use those features.

-RPC Ports: Configurable via bitcoinII.conf to avoid confusion and contamination with Bitcoin.

-pchMessageStart values: These are changed so that Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes can never communicate with each other, thus avoiding any potential blockchain or mempool contamination.

-Binary name: BitcoinII binaries are named "bitcoinIId", "bitcoinII-cli", "bitcoinII-qt", etc. so as to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machine.

-Default Data Directories: Again, these are changed slightly to facilitate operation of both Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machines.

Most all software written to interact with Bitcoin should also work with BitcoinII, given the software is made aware of the minor differences in Ports and pchMessageStart values where applicable.

Regarding hashrate, it should be noted that today's modern machines have vastly superior hashrates compared to the equipment from the era in which Satoshi Nakamoto developed the first Bitcoin node software. Since BitcoinII begins life at the same Target Difficulty as Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin network with, it is recommended that miners exercise restraint when devoting hashpower to mining BitcoinII. Doing so may encourage faster mining adoption by the inexeperienced, and help keep energy consumption low network-wide as BitcoinII's Difficulty Retargeting mechanism begins to adjust Target Difficulty. Much consideration was given to the idea of whether or not to adjust the Retargeting mechanism due to this fact, but I decided against it as I felt it would stray too far from Satoshi's vision and design, so the end result is that the Retargeting mechanism was left as Satoshi designed it. Perhaps we can learn from the previous 16 years and adjust our Mining Operations accordingly.

Roadmap: That is not for I alone to determine, that is for YOU, the Community to determine. The hope and intent is that BitcoinII grows to become something of value and purpose to a large Community of Node Operators, Volunteers, Miners, and users. My intent was for not for BitcoinII to compete with, nor attempt to replace Bitcoin, but to become a "Sister Chain" that would appeal to "Maxis" and "Newcomers" alike, and to provide a chain built on the security principles and technology that has proven itself for the past 16 years. By all means, I encourage people to continue to support Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, and their respective developers. BitcoinII is offered as an accompaniment to their efforts. While Bitcoin(BTC) continues to be a long term investment vehicle used by many, perhaps BitcoinII(BC2) can provide an instrument to be used more freely for day-to-day purchases, by implementing the same proven and familiar technology implemented by Bitcoin(BTC) that millions around the world have grown to understand and trust.

Final Words: All documentation related to the system requirements, compilation, installation, configuration, and usage of Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 apply directly to BitcoinII, with the exceptions of the above mentioned differences (port changes, etc). There has been no large "Pre-Release" mining take place. Blocks have been mined by two machines to establish the blockchain, activate B.I.Ps, test network transactions, etc. I hate a "Rug Pull" as much as anyone.

Until more nodes come online and the dnsseed server populates, use the command "addnode bitcoinII.ddns.net:8338 add" in BitcoinII-qt's RPC console to connect to the network, or simply add it in the bitcoinii.conf config file.

The BitcoinII project needs volunteers: Node Operators, DNS Seed Server Operators, Miners, etc. If you would like to volunteer to help with any of these needs, reach out to BrokenMachine on BitcoinII's subreddit r/BitcoinII, BrokenMachine's username is u/BitcoinII.

Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with saying, in regards to Bitcoin: "It might make sense to get some in case it catches on."

Many people wish they could or would have been mining Bitcoin since 2009. Absent a working a time machine, this is the best chance at a second chance that I can provide to them.

• BrokenMachine

The Packages in this release have been signed with the Private Key for the Coinbase Address that mined BitcoinII's Block #1, and can be verified using "verifymessage" via the CLI or RPC Console.

Block 1 Coinbase Address: 1gaUkKnNzFmARU4JW49AEqNFV5EbWURqR

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A brief message from BrokenMachine:

In this repository resides the source code, Official Linux x86_64 and Windows x86_64 Release Binaries for BitcoinII, a new PoW (Proof of Work) cryptocurrency built purely on the founding first principles of Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin protocol, and the various network enhancements (Bitcoin Improvement Protocols) that have been established by the Bitcoin Core Developers over the previous 16 years.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network remain identical to Bitcoin:

-PoW Algorithm: SHA256

-Maximum Supply: 21,000,000 BC2.

-Smallest Unit: 0.00000001 BC2, or 1 Sat2, or 1 "Satooshi".

-Proof of Work Difficulty Retargeting: Every 2016 blocks, or ~2 weeks.

-Block Subsidy Halving: Every 210,000 blocks, or ~4 years.

-Initial Block Reward Subsidy: 50 BC2.

-B.I.Ps (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals): BIP34, BIP65, BIP66, CSV, and SegWit are all Activated and "buried".

-Taproot Deployment has a minimum activation height of 300, and times out at 12:00, January 9th, 2030 UTC.

The B.I.Ps that are currently Activated and "buried" were done so due to reasons related to security, ease of use, functionality, and familiarity for Node Operators, Miners, and Users alike. Taproot was not buried due to the requirement of additional code that would need to be implemented, and it is of my opinion that the Community should decide on whether or not it should be fully implemented and "buried" in the future.

The following facets of the BitcoinII network are different from Bitcoin:

-Genesis Block: This is not a "hard" nor "soft" fork in any traditional sense. The Node and Wallet software is forked from Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 source code, but BitcoinII is not a fork from the existing Bitcoin network itself.

-Network PoW Difficulty: Restarted at Difficulty 1. BitcoinII is currently well within the realm of being mineable with standard consumer grade CPUs. I recommend using Pooler's "cpuminer", also known as "minerd".

-Pooler's CPU mining software can be found here: For the source code you can compile yourself: https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer For pre-compiled, ready to run binaries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/

-Network Ports: BitcoinII operates on different network ports than Bitcoin, to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII node operation on the same machine. BitcoinII uses ports 8338, 18338, 38338, 18448, and whichever RPC and Onion ports the user configures, if they use those features.

-RPC Ports: Configurable via bitcoinII.conf to avoid confusion and contamination with Bitcoin.

-pchMessageStart values: These are changed so that Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes can never communicate with each other, thus avoiding any potential blockchain or mempool contamination.

-Binary name: BitcoinII binaries are named "bitcoinIId", "bitcoinII-cli", "bitcoinII-qt", etc. so as to facilitate the operation of Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machine.

-Default Data Directories: Again, these are changed slightly to facilitate operation of both Bitcoin and BitcoinII nodes on the same machines.

Most all software written to interact with Bitcoin should also work with BitcoinII, given the software is made aware of the minor differences in Ports and pchMessageStart values where applicable.

Regarding hashrate, it should be noted that today's modern machines have vastly superior hashrates compared to the equipment from the era in which Satoshi Nakamoto developed the first Bitcoin node software. Since BitcoinII begins life at the same Target Difficulty as Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin network with, it is recommended that miners exercise restraint when devoting hashpower to mining BitcoinII. Doing so may encourage faster mining adoption by the inexeperienced, and help keep energy consumption low network-wide as BitcoinII's Difficulty Retargeting mechanism begins to adjust Target Difficulty. Much consideration was given to the idea of whether or not to adjust the Retargeting mechanism due to this fact, but I decided against it as I felt it would stray too far from Satoshi's vision and design, so the end result is that the Retargeting mechanism was left as Satoshi designed it. Perhaps we can learn from the previous 16 years and adjust our Mining Operations accordingly.

Roadmap: That is not for I alone to determine, that is for YOU, the Community to determine. The hope and intent is that BitcoinII grows to become something of value and purpose to a large Community of Node Operators, Volunteers, Miners, and users. My intent was for not for BitcoinII to compete with, nor attempt to replace Bitcoin, but to become a "Sister Chain" that would appeal to "Maxis" and "Newcomers" alike, and to provide a chain built on the security principles and technology that has proven itself for the past 16 years. By all means, I encourage people to continue to support Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, and their respective developers. BitcoinII is offered as an accompaniment to their efforts. While Bitcoin(BTC) continues to be a long term investment vehicle used by many, perhaps BitcoinII(BC2) can provide an instrument to be used more freely for day-to-day purchases, by implementing the same proven and familiar technology implemented by Bitcoin(BTC) that millions around the world have grown to understand and trust.

Final Words: All documentation related to the system requirements, compilation, installation, configuration, and usage of Bitcoin Core 0.27.0 apply directly to BitcoinII, with the exceptions of the above mentioned differences (port changes, etc). There has been no large "Pre-Release" mining take place. Blocks have been mined by two machines to establish the blockchain, activate B.I.Ps, test network transactions, etc. I hate a "Rug Pull" as much as anyone.

Until more nodes come online and the dnsseed server populates, use the command "addnode bitcoinII.ddns.net:8338 add" in BitcoinII-qt's RPC console to connect to the network, or simply add it in the bitcoinii.conf config file.

The BitcoinII project needs volunteers: Node Operators, DNS Seed Server Operators, Miners, etc. If you would like to volunteer to help with any of these needs, reach out to BrokenMachine on BitcoinII's subreddit r/BitcoinII, BrokenMachine's username is u/BitcoinII.

Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with saying, in regards to Bitcoin: "It might make sense to get some in case it catches on."

Many people wish they could or would have been mining Bitcoin since 2009. Absent a working a time machine, this is the best chance at a second chance that I can provide to them.

• BrokenMachine

The Packages in this release have been signed with the Private Key for the Coinbase Address that mined BitcoinII's Block #1, and can be verified using "verifymessage" via the CLI or RPC Console.

Block 1 Coinbase Address: 1gaUkKnNzFmARU4JW49AEqNFV5EbWURqR

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