Reserved for future updates. And most recent releases.

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[ANN] Bitkini ($KINI) — SHA256 PoW | 60s Blocks | 69 Reward | Halvings

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Bitkini is a new SHA256 Proof-of-Work blockchain — a lightweight Bitcoin fork built for speed, scarcity, and summer.

Bitkini is a direct fork of Bitcoin Core - same foundation, new parameters.
We kept the full node architecture, full validation, and mining intact.

It's a real chain. With working wallets. Live mining. Real emission. And community energy.

Mainnet is live.


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⚙️ Chain Parameters:

• Block Time: 60 seconds
• Block Reward: 69 $KINI
• Max Supply: 31,351,500 $KINI (hard cap)
• Halvings: Every 210,000 blocks (~145 days)
• Consensus: Proof-of-Work (SHA256d)
• Difficulty Adjustment: Every 30 blocks
• SegWit: Active
• Taproot: Fully activated at block 3200
• Address Format: Supports both legacy (K…) and Bech32 (kini1…) native formats
• Coinbase Maturity: 1000 blocks

Bitkini is up and running. All the sources are available on public GitHub.
Nodes syncing. Wallets transacting. Blocks flowing.

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🧰 Bitkini Core Wallet:

We offer a fully functional GUI wallet for Windows — prebuilt, tested, and stable.

You can:

• Generate KINI addresses
• Send and receive transactions
• Watch mempool, history, confirmations
• Create and manage multiple wallets
• Sync with the Bitkini chain via full node or trusted peers

➡️ Download GUI Wallet (unsigned for now) 
Code signing is pending from the foundation.

Advanced users can build from source via GitHub 
Or follow the Ubuntu Full Node guide to get started.

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⛏️ Mining Status:

The official pool is live at:
https://pool.bitkini.lol

SHA256 ASICs and CPU/GPU miners that support SHA256d are compatible.

Want to solo mine? You can. 
Want to test with your own node + stratum setup? It’s ready. 
Want to launch your own pool or add Bitkini to your existing list? You’re more than welcome.

We’ve based our official pool on MiningCore and MiningCore.WebUI - both forks are public and ready to use. 
Feel free to fork and build from our repositories.

Official pool stratum address: 
stratum+tcp://pool.bitkini.lol:4067

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🌴 Project Vision:

Bitkini isn’t another grayscale chain for nerd cults. 
This is a party chain.

We’re building around meme culture, fun mining, and event-based engagement - 
but we’re grounded in working code and real chain economics.
 
Only two presales (one already launched), and the rest is mineable by anyone.

We’ve got upcoming contests like Miss Bitkini 2025 and Beach Boss 2025, 
gaming events on Discord planned, and creative roles in the Discord community ready.

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📦 Treasury & Presale Supply

To ensure a clean launch and long-term sustainability, a controlled premine was performed in consensus between blocks 1–435. This initial allocation was split across:

• Presale Wallet 1: For the SPL (Pump.fun) snapshot sale
• Presale Wallet 2: For the BTC → $KINI web-based presale
• Treasury Wallet: For future listings, events, partnerships, and community incentives

Any unsold $KINI from either presale will be moved to the Treasury wallet transparently.

This presale (Swap #2) is ongoing and open-ended — we’re raising funds for our first exchange listing. 
But beyond that, the Treasury exists to support the chain long-term: 
Exchange expansions, Miss Bitkini 2025, Beach Boss 2025, Discord bounties, music contests, and meme fuel - all of it depends on having a healthy on-chain budget.

All funds are on-chain and visible.

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💸 BTC → $KINI Presale

We’re funding our first CEX listings with an active BTC-based swap.

You can now swap BTC → $KINI directly on-chain.

Swap here: https://bitkini.lol

Funds go directly to Bitkini's future listings — either one large exchange or several mid-tier ones. 
You receive $KINI after 2 confirmations. No KYC, no signup, no delay.

This isn’t just a swap — it’s built-in fundraising. 
You’re backing the network, bootstrapping the ecosystem, and helping $KINI break into the global stage. Any support is appreciated.

The presale will remain open until the funding goal is reached.

If you want to contribute directly to help us secure exchange listings, BTC donations are welcome. 
Just 0.5 BTC gets us closer to launching on a medium or large exchange.

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🔗 Official Bitkini Links

🌴 Website: https://bitkini.lol 
🔍 Explorer: https://explorer.bitkini.lol 
⛏️ Mining Pool: https://pool.bitkini.lol 

📡 Socials & Community: 
• X (Twitter): https://x.com/BitkiniChain 
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yseJtyPbbU 
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/BitkiniChain

💻 Official GitHub: 
• Core Node & Wallet: https://github.com/bitkini/bitkini 
• HD Wallet Generator: https://github.com/bitkini/bitkini-keygen

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This is a working chain.

Fair mining. Transparent emissions. On-chain incentives. 
You’re early - and the chain is live.

Enjoy

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Welcome aboard, GM.

The others already dropped some solid links - definitely take time to read through them. But let me give you one piece of advice that matters more than all the forum rules combined:

Never share your private keys. With anyone. Ever.

Not your seed phrase. Not screenshots. Not “just for verification.” Nothing.

Scammers won’t always show up in a hoodie - sometimes they’ll sound helpful, friendly, maybe even smart. Doesn’t matter. If they ask for access to your wallet, they’re not here to help you. They’re here to drain you.

Learn how to store your keys. Cold wallets, hardware devices, multisig - take the time to understand the options. And keep security at the core of everything you do.

This space rewards those who think like hackers, not tourists.

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You're spot on - no trader, no matter how good, stops losing completely. The game isn’t about eliminating losses - it’s about managing them so the wins outpace the wreckage.

The biggest lie sold to newcomers is that you can just "learn to trade" and print money. What they don’t hear is that even the best traders lose often. Especially in leveraged environments like crypto, one wrong move can wipe weeks of gains — or your entire stack. It’s literally impossible to avoid losses when you use leverage, because it turns market volatility into a landmine field. You don’t get to make mistakes. And guess what? Everyone makes mistakes.

Real professionals - the ones playing options, futures, high-volume stocks - they often don’t even touch leverage. They rely on precision, timing, and deep understanding of macro conditions. Most of their edge comes from knowing when not to trade. That discipline is what keeps them in the game long after the hype cycles die out.

And you nailed it: trading isn't the only way to make it in crypto. But for those who do go that route, they better come in humble - because the market has no mercy for the overconfident.

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I feel you. That lost, confused feeling when markets tank and nothing makes sense - we’ve all been there. But most won’t admit it.

The idea that you can always make money, even when crypto drops, is technically true. People trade against the trend, open short positions, play futures, options, all that jazz. But here’s what no one tells you: doing that successfully takes years of understanding how markets actually function. It’s not just charts and vibes. It’s knowing how macroeconomics, global news, central bank policy, and institutional flows all interact. Most people don’t even know what an economic calendar is, let alone how to front-run a rate decision or interpret labor data.

Without that foundation, trying to reverse your losses by trading aggressively is like jumping into a storm with a paper boat. And in crypto - with 50x leverage flashing in your face - that storm gets lethal real fast.

Truth is, trading isn’t for everyone. And that’s okay. You don’t need to become a trader to survive or even thrive in this space. But if you do want to walk that path, start with humility. Accept that it’s going to take time, pain, and a lot of learning before you stop losing.

When markets drop, the smartest move might be to do nothing. Step back. Reflect. Study. Ask why things are dropping - not just the price, but the narrative, the momentum, the macro context. That’s where the real edge begins.

You're not too late. But you do need to slow down before you burn out.

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Using a mixer still makes sense - if you actually understand the tradeoff.

Mixing isn't illegal. But sending freshly mixed coins straight to a KYC exchange that knows your real name, passport, and grandma’s address? That’s how you land yourself in hot water for something you didn’t even do.

Because here's the catch: your coins aren't just yours anymore. They carry a history. And when you mix, you inherit fragments of other people's stories - sometimes messy ones. Some CEX's AML systems don't care why the coins are mixed - they just see risk. And if your UTXO touched some darknet dust three hops ago? You’re the one explaining it.

Privacy tools are powerful. But power without context is dangerous.

So yeah, never forget: it’s not just about hiding - it’s about staying clean after the mix. Use no-KYC routes, stay off exchanges that play detective, and most importantly…

Don’t use privacy tools like you're bulletproof. Use them like you're being watched.

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Yeah, 14 years is wild - but the idea that someone brute-forced a private key with quantum tech? Not happening. Not now, not realistically anytime soon.

Here’s the thing: cracking a Bitcoin private key via brute force, even with a fantasy-tier quantum machine, isn’t some overnight hack. You’d need a fault-tolerant quantum computer running millions of stable logical qubits - and not just in a lab, but executing Shor’s algorithm at planetary scale without collapsing into noise. We’re not even close.

Even if (and that's a big if) that tech shows up one day, Bitcoin will be the least of the world’s problems. Banks, military comms, state secrets, SSL, your medical data, everything goes up in smoke. Bitcoin wouldn’t be the first domino - it would be the last.

But here's the kicker: the Bitcoin protocol is adaptable. If quantum threats ever become real, we’ll see a hard fork, key format upgrades, post-quantum crypto integrated - all before Satoshi’s ghost gets rugged.

Until then? Quantum fear is noise. The real game is still social engineering and lost seeds.

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Are you sure you used the third eye ?

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True, S&P upticks signal market optimism - but they're often a trailing indicator of liquidity expectations, not actual economic health.

Retail flows are chasing momentum, but the real players are watching the horizon: labor softening, forward guidance, GDP contraction risks. They front-run the macro cycle - not the price chart. The “$155B in” stat is loud, but the smart money exiting quietly is louder.

Funny enough, some of that inflow might even be indirectly recycled into BTC via MicroStrategy buys… which says a lot about where people are betting the next liquidity wave lands.

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Some solid points here, but most of you are missing the deeper layer: Bitcoin isn't reacting to wars anymore - it's reacting to how markets perceive monetary policy risk during them.

It's not about Iran or Israel specifically. It's about whether macro players think conflict will trigger rate cuts, QE, or capital flight. Bitcoin's "resilience" in this case is just a reflection of investors front-running liquidity pivots.

Also worth noting: post-ETF cycle has brought in players who don't panic-dump on geopolitical noise. They hedge with futures, rotate to stables, or ride it out. That alone changes Bitcoin’s volatility signature during events like this.

This cycle is different. The crowd is different. And the flows are smarter.

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I did the math as well, and came to a similar conclusion.

When you factor in the number of ISO variations - language, edition, SP level, OEM vs retail - the total unique file set explodes. Even assuming 5–10k hashable targets per ISO, you’re looking at millions of permutations.

Sure, hashing and WIF conversion is trivial. But building a pipeline to cover all the XP variants, deduplicate inputs, and handle edge-case encoding quirks... that’s easily several hours of effort. And all of that assumes the premise isn’t a hoax - which we can’t verify unless the OP drops the address.

End of the day, I respect the puzzle hustle, but the expected value just doesn’t justify the dev time.

Nice try though, OP. Would love to see the address at least.

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First of all - sorry for your loss, OP. Posts like this hit harder than most threads do.

You’re absolutely right though. Death isn't an 'if', it’s a 'when' - and Bitcoin doesn’t care. If you vanish tomorrow and your seed dies with you, your sats go to the void. Forever. That’s not just bad OPSEC - that’s unfinished code.

Most people secure their keys, but very few think through key succession. It’s one of the most overlooked elements of crypto self-custody. Hardware wallets, passphrases, multisig, timelocks… they’re all tools, but tools are only as useful as the context they exist in. If nobody knows how to use your setup when you're gone, then you built a vault with no door.

Personally, I believe the real flex isn’t how well you guard your stash - but how cleanly it transfers when you’re no longer around to explain it.

Plan your legacy like you write your software:

Deterministic.
Secure.
And with clear, human-readable docs.

So that your descendants can have access to your keys.

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The term "reliability" in crypto is always misused.

If we’re talking about price predictability, sure - it’s volatile by design. But that volatility is what gives crypto its edge. You don’t get paradigm shifts without chaos.

But if we’re talking about protocol-level reliability - censorship resistance, trustless execution, borderless value - then crypto is arguably more reliable than any traditional financial infrastructure.

Crypto was never built to promise financial freedom to everyone. That’s just a side effect that degens wrapped into the narrative. The original ethos was simple:
Transfer value without a middleman. Interact with the internet without showing your face.
That’s the superpower. That’s the threat to legacy rails.

You can trade it, flip it, hodl it - whatever. But at its core, crypto gives anyone a sovereign endpoint to interface with global liquidity. No KYC. No gatekeepers.

That alone makes it worth building.

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