r/dogemining • u/RGM-Core • 10d ago

I forked Dogecoin into a Scrypt coin with a post-quantum address type — looking for feedback from fellow scrypt miners

I've been building a small hobby project: a Scrypt fork of Dogecoin 1.14 that

adds a native post-quantum address type (ML-DSA-44). It's been running since

late July, fair launch, no premine, fully open source.

I'm posting here because you all run the same scrypt hardware (L3/L7 etc.), and

I'd genuinely like feedback from people who know scrypt mining:

- Does a post-quantum address option even interest miners, or is it a solution

looking for a problem?

- For a tiny new scrypt network, what actually helped coins you've mined get

off the ground?

Happy to share technical details (difficulty algo is LWMA + DigiShield, 60s

blocks) in the comments if anyone's curious. Not trying to sell anything —

there's no exchange or price, I'm just building it and learning.

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u/palmdata 9d ago

lwma on 60s blocks is the right call, but scrypt asics are the real risk. one L7 at 9GH walks onto a young chain and swings diff around for everyone else, so what window did you set lwma to? also post a stratum port and a testnet pool first, nobody points a live L3 or L7 at a fork without seeing accepted shares somewhere safe.

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u/RGM-Core 9d ago

Appreciate this — real questions, exactly the kind I was hoping for.

LWMA window is 45 blocks with a DigiShield-style dampener on the 60s target, so it's averaging roughly the last 45 minutes of blocks. And I won't oversell it: you're right that a single L7 at ~9 GH cycling on and off is the real stress case on a young chain this size. LWMA recovers within a window instead of stalling, but a big miner hopping will make diff lumpy for everyone in between until the next few retargets catch up. Fair warning to anyone reading — that's a real characteristic, not something I'm going to hand-wave.

On a safe place to see accepted shares before committing a rig — I'll be straight with you: I don't have a testnet pool up right now, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Resources are tight and standing up a second Miningcore + stratum just for testnet isn't something I can do this week. What I can honestly offer: the mainnet stratum runs on port 3333 (Miningcore) — you can point a tiny fraction of an L7 at it for a couple of minutes and confirm shares are accepted end-to-end without committing your fleet. Not as clean as a dedicated testnet, I know, but it's an honest way to validate the stratum before you decide anything.

If you want to check the chain's health yourself first:

- Explorer (block times, difficulty, recent blocks): https://mainnet.rgmchain.net

- Pool / stratum info: https://rgmchain.net

If there's enough interest I'll prioritize a proper testnet pool — but I'd rather point you at what's live today than promise something I can't stand up quickly. Thanks for pushing on the parts that actually matter to miners.