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. |