Frequently asked questions

An open-source proof-of-work coin built on Bitcoin-derived code. It uses SHA-256d, targets a block every 240 seconds and pays 50 VVC per block. Genesis was in 2021; the chain has been paused at block 24,092 since September 2021 and is being restarted with the v1.1 upgrade. More on the What is Vivuscoin page.

A single founder, who wrote the whitepaper, launched the chain in 2021 and still maintains the code and the seed nodes. The same founder mined the premine and holds about 94 % of the supply, which is why this site discloses it everywhere it matters.

It is a fork of the Bitcoin Core software, not of the Bitcoin chain. Vivuscoin has its own genesis block, its own network and its own coins; no Bitcoin balance carries over. The code is MIT-licensed at github.com/vivuscoin/vivuscoin.

Today it is a small proof-of-work network you can run, mine and send coins on. The whitepaper describes a long-term research motivation: simulating a human brain in a computer, with Vivuscoin as the currency for computational resources in that future. That is a mission statement, not a claim about what the coin does now.

Yes: the whitepaper (PDF) from 2021. It explains the mission and contains no supply or economics figures; the numbers on this site come from the chain and its source code, not from the paper.

About 127.03 million VVC (127,032,970): 125,829,120 from the premine plus 50 VVC for each of the 24,077 ordinary blocks mined up to height 24,092. Nothing new has been created since 2021-09-22. Details on the Supply & transparency page.

The subsidy rule in the 2021 code paid 8,388,608 VVC to every eighth block below height 128, so 15 blocks (heights 8, 16 … 120) created about 125.8 million VVC. Those blocks were mined by the founder at launch. Nothing was sold. The rule and the block heights are shown on the Supply & transparency page.

The founder holds about 119.2 million VVC, roughly 94 % of everything in existence. Everyone else together holds about 7.8 million. The keys are held offline; no coins sit on servers. The airdrop programme exists to distribute part of the founder's share. See Supply & transparency.

The block reward is 50 VVC and halves every 210,000 blocks, so ordinary emission adds a finite amount, about 6.6 million VVC a year at the 240-second target to begin with. The exact ceiling is being verified against the source code and will be published on the Supply & transparency page.

No. There was no ICO, pre-sale or token sale of any kind, and there is none now. The premine was mined, not sold. Anyone offering to sell you VVC on behalf of the project is not us.

No. VVC is not listed on any exchange and has no market price. Anyone quoting one is not us. The only ways to get VVC are to mine it or to register for the airdrop.

You register a VVC address on the airdrop page, one claim per address. Once blocks are being produced again, payouts are batched daily, signed offline and every transaction id is published. The programme size, per-claim amount and schedule are published before the first payout. Nothing is promised and nothing is sold.

Yes. Point any SHA-256d miner at stratum+tcp://pool.vivuscoin.com:3333 with your VVC address as the username and x as the password. It is solo mining: a block you find pays the full 50 VVC reward to your address. Until the v1.1 restart the chain may not advance, so watch the network status. Full guide on the Mining page.

Vivuscoin Core, the only wallet. Version 1.0.0.3 (2021) is available for Windows and macOS from the GitHub releases page; see Wallets. Hardware wallets, mobile wallets and exchanges do not support VVC.

Because that is the last block. The chain has been paused at height 24,092 since 2021-09-22, so a wallet showing 24,092 is fully synced. Transactions will confirm again once blocks are produced after the v1.1 restart.

No. The 2021 .dmg is unsigned, so macOS will refuse to open it on double-click. Right-click the app and choose Open the first time. Verify the checksum from the release page before you do.

The legacy 2021 GUI build at /downloads/vivuscoin-qt does not run on current Linux distributions. Build from source (see Developers) or wait for the v1.1 release, which will ship Linux binaries.

No date is promised. The consensus code is being tested; wallets for Windows, macOS and Linux follow, then the seed nodes are upgraded and mining resumes. Each step is published when it is done, with binary hashes. Follow the roadmap.

The 2021 rules adjusted difficulty only every 5,040 blocks. Difficulty was pushed up, the hash power left, and the chain stalled at block 24,092 on 2021-09-22. v1.1 adjusts difficulty every block and recovers from a stall within hours. See the roadmap.

Per-block difficulty (LWMA-1 over a 60-block window), a bounded emergency rule so a stall recovers within hours, a tighter future-timestamp limit (12 minutes instead of 2 hours), a refusal of reorganisations deeper than about 10 blocks, and checkpoints kept. Same genesis, same network. It activates at a set height shortly after mining resumes; old wallets must upgrade before that height.

stratum+tcp://pool.vivuscoin.com:3333, username = your VVC address, password x. The endpoint runs in solo mode: the block reward pays your address directly and the pool holds nothing. Details and example commands on the Mining page.

Yes: the block explorer at vivuscoin.com/explorer/ shows blocks, transactions, addresses, search and a rich list, which makes the premine addresses visible; that is intended. The network status page still shows height, last block time, difficulty and seed-node state, and a full node answers everything else over RPC.

P2P port 8168. Seed nodes seed1.vivuscoin.com and seed2.vivuscoin.com; add them with addnode= in vivuscoin.conf if your wallet finds no peers. Chain parameters are listed on the Developers page.

Yes: the roadmap lists what is done, in progress and next for the restart, in plain words, with no dates promised.

Email support@vivuscoin.com or open an issue on GitHub. We do not run social media accounts; anyone claiming to be Vivuscoin on social media is not us. See Community & contact.

At github.com/vivuscoin/vivuscoin, MIT-licensed. Releases and checksums are published there too.