# ADR-006 — Fair launch and founder mining disclosure

- **Status:** Accepted (rewritten 2026-10-16 for the public-launch chain)
- **Date:** 2026-10-16
- **Related:** ADR-010 (2-minute blocks, 60-block retarget), ADR-011 (fixed cap), ADR-013 (miner distribution), ADR-014 (founder vault)

Times in this document are Central European time (CET/CEST).

## Decision

MoonBite launches with no premine, no founder allocation, no dev tax and no
hidden mining advantage. Every MBITE that exists is produced by the public
proof-of-work rules in the public source code. The genesis block's reward is
unspendable, so the chain starts at zero coins.

Earlier relaunches had one unavoidable unfairness: somebody has to mine the
first blocks, and while difficulty starts at its minimum those blocks come
fast. On the 2026-10-16 chain that somebody was the founder, alone, for 212
blocks. This chain removes that head start instead of only disclosing it.

## Nobody can mine before launch, by rule

| | |
|---|---|
| Public launch | **Saturday 2026-10-17, 07:00 CEST** |
| Mainnet genesis | `ffe25d9248b7f56d8934719ed5c7357f7595451c4b9d391d9b8377e62a83e39c` |
| Genesis timestamp | 2026-10-17 09:00 CEST (launch + 2 h), Unix 1792220400 |
| Network magic | `e2 9b 4d 4d` (nodes on any earlier chain cannot connect) |

Every block must be timestamped after its parent, and every node rejects a
block stamped more than 2 hours ahead of its own clock. With the genesis block
stamped 09:00 CEST, the earliest moment a valid block 1 can exist is 07:00
CEST, the announced launch. Before that, a node refuses to build or accept one
("time-too-new"), so nobody can mine in advance, the founder included. This is
enforced by every node, not promised.

Anyone can check it: `getblockheader $(getblockhash 0)` shows the genesis
`time` of 1792220400.

## Founder mining

- The founder starts mining at launch, at the same moment as everyone else,
  with the same miner download from moonbite.org/mine. There is no faster
  private build.
- Every founder block pays the time-locked vault of ADR-014,
  `moon1qw436kfcvdg70qkkl4lfnt7m9qd79mkzl0js5lnjnqyxfkckw4d5sj26lxq`.
  Nobody, the founder included, can spend from it before 2029-10-17 07:00
  CEST; every node enforces that. Because all founder mining pays this one
  address, the founder's total is always public.

## Earlier chains

Earlier mainnets (genesis `2a5ae281…`, `cabdebc6…`, `3d053c59…`, the interim
`18a76cd4…`, the 2026-10-16 `7b93fff9…` and the never-mined `082d5e52…`) are
retired. Nothing mined on them exists on this chain, and every balance on them,
the founder's included, is void. The `7b93fff9` chain reached height 212,
every block mined by the founder before any announcement; it was retired so
that this launch could start with nobody ahead. `082d5e52` was a genesis for a
launch a week later; it was replaced, unmined, when the launch moved to
2026-10-17. Retired chain data is archived, not carried forward.

## Commitments

- Founder mining pays only the ADR-014 vault. Changing that address, or
  moving founder coins, needs a new ADR published before it happens.
- Any change to these commitments is recorded as a new ADR before it happens,
  never after.
- This file is updated after launch with the height of the first block found
  by a miner other than the founder, and the height at which block times first
  settle near 2 minutes.

## Log

| Date (CEST) | Height | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | 0 | Chain reset for the public launch. Mining opens 2026-10-17 07:00 CEST. |