DISCLAIMER: There exists no commercially available photonic miner as of today (Dec 18, 2021). PoWx mission is to implement dedicated hardware with smaller energy per hash as compared to conventional hardware. However, we do not have any guarantees about the hash rate or hardware price. While the hardware should be compatible with the oBTC network, we reserve the right to adjust the proof-of-work algorithm in the future. Any possible algorithm adjustment will be publicly discussed well in advance.
Anyone trying to sell you a photonic miner is trying to scam you.
-PoWx team
oBTC is a fork of Bitcoin aiming to reduce mining energy consumption via compatability with cutting edge optical compute cores. Like Bitcoin, oBTC is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. oBTC uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. oBTC Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://powx.org/, or read the Towards Optical Proof of Work Manuscript.
oBTC Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of oBTC Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
The project would be impossible without the Bitcoin Core. We thank the Bitcoin Core contributors for their effort.
The list of PoWx contributors who brought the oBTC project to life.
We also thank everyone who believed in us but is not on the list.