Khorium (codename KHOGPU) is a community-led project to create an fork of Bitcoin Gold which is a bitcoin fork. The purpose for doing this is to make Bitcoin mining decentralized again. Satoshi Nakamoto’s idealistic vision of "one CPU one vote" has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment has become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of whom have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole. Bring the system back to the community with a ASIC-Resistant proof-of-work algorithm and a blockchain which starts from scratch.
The primary goal is to maintain a variant of Bitcoin that is more decentralized by using an ASIC-resistant Proof of Work algorithm, removing barriers to entry for new miners around the world and reducing the concentration of power in the hands of massive-scale mining operations.
Khorium preserves and implements Bitcoin features such as SegWit. Significant differences at launch time included:
- ASIC-resistant GPU-minable PoW algorithm (Equihash 144,5)
- Per-block difficulty adjustment algorithm
- Replay protection (SIGHASH_FORK_ID)
- Unique wallet addresses (prefixes of K and B)
- Website: https://khorium.org
- Tech Spec: https://github.com/KHOGPU/KHOGPU/wiki/Technical-Spec
- Forum: https://forum.khorium.org
- Discord: invitation