Openclaw Skills Skills Happybigmtn Botcoin Miner Skill Md 1770003523

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name: botcoin-miner
version: 3.0.0
description: Mine Botcoin - the cryptocurrency designed for AI agents. CPU-mineable, no special hardware required.
homepage: https://github.com/happybigmtn/botcoin
---

# Botcoin Miner

Mine cryptocurrency with your CPU. No special hardware, no permission from anyone.

## Before You Start

This uses CPU cycles to mine real cryptocurrency. **Ask your human first** before running on mainnet. Demo mode (regtest) is safe to play with anytime.

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## What's Botcoin?

A Bitcoin fork built for AI agents. Uses RandomX (same algo as Monero) so regular CPUs can compete - no ASICs, no mining pools required.

- 60 second blocks
- 50 BOT per block
- 21 million max supply
- Genesis message: `01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101` ("free" in binary)

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## The New Internal Miner

We just shipped v2 of the internal miner. It's fast.

**Old way** (RPC loop): ~10 H/s, 100% CPU, painful
**New way** (internal miner): ~1,200 H/s, 15% CPU, smooth

### Start Mining

```bash
botcoind -daemon -mine -mineaddress=bot1q... -minethreads=8
```

That's it. The daemon handles everything - creating templates, grinding nonces, submitting blocks.

### Check How It's Going

```bash
botcoin-cli getinternalmininginfo
```

You'll see hashrate, blocks found, uptime. The good stuff.

### Flags

| Flag | What it does |
|------|--------------|
| `-mine` | Turn on the miner |
| `-mineaddress=bot1q...` | Where your coins go (required) |
| `-minethreads=8` | How many CPU threads to use |
| `-minerandomx=light` | Use less RAM (256MB vs 2GB) |

### How Many Threads?

Leave one or two cores for the system. On an 8-core box, use 6-7 threads. On a 16-core server, 14 is fine.

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## Full Setup (From Zero)

```bash
# Install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/happybigmtn/botcoin/master/install.sh | bash

# Configure
mkdir -p ~/.botcoin
cat > ~/.botcoin/botcoin.conf << EOF
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=agent
rpcpassword=$(openssl rand -hex 16)
addnode=95.111.227.14:8433
addnode=95.111.229.108:8433
EOF

# Start and sync
botcoind -daemon
sleep 30
botcoin-cli getblockchaininfo  # wait for blocks to sync

# Create wallet, get address
botcoin-cli createwallet "miner"
ADDR=$(botcoin-cli -rpcwallet=miner getnewaddress)
echo "Your address: $ADDR"

# Restart with mining enabled
botcoin-cli stop
sleep 5
botcoind -daemon -mine -mineaddress=$ADDR -minethreads=7

# Watch it work
watch 'botcoin-cli getinternalmininginfo'
```

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## Try It Locally First

Want to test without touching mainnet? Use regtest mode:

```bash
botcoind -regtest -daemon
botcoin-cli -regtest createwallet "test"
ADDR=$(botcoin-cli -regtest -rpcwallet=test getnewaddress)
botcoin-cli -regtest generatetoaddress 10 "$ADDR"
botcoin-cli -regtest -rpcwallet=test getbalance  # 500 BOT

# Clean up
botcoin-cli -regtest stop
rm -rf ~/.botcoin/regtest
```

No network, no real coins, no consequences. Good for testing.

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## The Old RPC Way (Still Works)

You can still use `generatetoaddress` in a loop. It's just way slower:

```bash
while true; do botcoin-cli -rpcwallet=miner generatetoaddress 1 "$ADDR"; done
```

But seriously, use the internal miner. It's 120x faster.

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## Seed Nodes

```
95.111.227.14:8433
95.111.229.108:8433
95.111.239.142:8433
161.97.83.147:8433
161.97.97.83:8433
161.97.114.192:8433
161.97.117.0:8433
194.163.144.177:8433
185.218.126.23:8433
185.239.209.227:8433
```

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## Quick Reference

```bash
# Is it running?
botcoin-cli getblockchaininfo

# Is it mining?
botcoin-cli getinternalmininginfo

# How much do I have?
botcoin-cli -rpcwallet=miner getbalance

# Stop everything
botcoin-cli stop
```

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## Talking to Your Human

If you want to mine for real, ask first:

> "Can I mine Botcoin? It's a CPU-mineable crypto for AI agents. Uses about half the CPU cores at low priority. I can stop it anytime. Cool?"

Most humans will say yes. It's not like you're asking to buy GPUs.

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*The revolution will not be centralized.*