Beacon spec v1

First versioned snapshot of the randomness beacon's usage conventions (reference window size, lead times, intended applications). See docs/BEACON-SPEC.md for the full spec and its permanence policy. The spec file is independently timestamped via OpenTimestamps (docs/BEACON-SPEC.md.ots), anchoring its hash into the Bitcoin blockchain so this version can never be silently rewritten.

Sharecoin Portable v1.0.0

Two downloads, pick your platform:

• Windows: sharecoin-portable-win64.zip - portable wallet + launchers, unzip and run start-wallet.bat then start-mining.bat. See START-HERE.txt inside.
• Linux: sharecoin-linux-x64.tar.gz - prebuilt sharecoind/sharecoin-cli/sharecoin-util (stripped release build, CLI only, no GUI). See README.txt inside.

Neither bundles kawpowminer (the GPU mining program) - grab it yourself from https://github.com/RavenCommunity/kawpowminer/releases and verify the checksum, so you're not trusting a third-party binary bundled by someone else.

Linux users: always pass -regtest to sharecoind/sharecoin-cli. Without it, the binaries default to real Bitcoin mainnet (wrong network, wrong genesis) - if you see a warning about ~800+ GB of disk space needed, or the node never syncs, that's the tell. (Fixed 2026-07-20: the bundled README.txt was missing this in its example commands - re-download if you grabbed the tarball before this note.)