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The sweep (main's item 1): 199 tracked text files, 783 lines. The founder's full name, first name and possessive become "the founder" (sentence starts capitalised); the lowercase operating-system user name in WSL paths and commands becomes <user>; the second owner login becomes "the second owner login"; the three earlier businesses and the two other brands become "the other business", "the earlier entity", "the earlier business" and "another brand"; the Chrome profile rule names the igneum.network profile, not the profile's label. The standing commit login igneum-labs is not a founder term here: the fresh-repository step renames it in the history (docs/plans/history-rewrite.md, tools/repo/fresh-repo.sh). The patterns never appear in plain text in the tree (a plaintext list would be the hit): tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 (perl regex, tab, a sample per row) is read by tools/ci/founder-strings-check.sh (every tracked text file, perl, known-failed first: the self-test plants each row's sample in a fixture and the hit must name the file), by tools/community/discord-hooks.mjs (the guard's founder and business rows; the test takes its fixtures from the samples) and by tools/repo/fresh-repo.sh (the business names of the rewrite rules). site/forbidden-strings.txt carries the same patterns as b64: lines, decoded case-insensitive by site/scrub.mjs and tools/ci/launch-gates-check.mjs (whose fixture now plants an encoded made-up name). The check runs in the gate's tree checks on every merge. Not in this commit, by main's word: the 105 commit messages and 40 personal-identity commits that need the history rewrite (listed, not run), and the secrets found by gitleaks over the history (reported with owners). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reddit post, 6 October 2026
Saved on the founder's word (16:4x UTC). For r/CryptoCurrency or r/gpumining, posted by the founder only, after 0.3.14 restores proving and the fleet numbers land. Finalised against the pages deployed at 16:12 UTC (master e763604); sources per number in docs/review/round-4-reddit-2026-10-06.md section 5.
Igneum: a GPU-mined L1 where the miners are the provers. Devnet live. One person, no premine, every criticism logged.
I mined through the GPU years. The Merge in September 2022 ended that income and the miners' place in Ethereum. I am building the coin I wanted to exist: GPU-mined, the miners prove the blocks, no founder allocation. One person, AI systems doing the engineering.
What runs today (devnet since 3 October 2026):
- A random mining program every hour, compiled on the card. Swaps measured on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD, 0 rejected blocks (bench log, 4 Oct).
- Memory-hard: 128 dependent random reads per hash. An RTX 5090 does 136 MH/s at 17.5 G reads a second, 82% of its memory's random-read ceiling, integer units at 0.15%. Computing items instead of loading them runs 4.8x slower (M5 Max, 3 Oct).
- GHOSTDAG ordering forked from rusty-kaspa, about 1 block a second.
- EVM execution, native on every node.
- Shards proven with SP1 on miners' cards and paid from the block: 388 shards, 446.13 IGN on 5 Oct. A 3060 mines and proves at an 8.9 GB peak (rented cards, 6 Oct).
- Finality by miner weight: 30 days of blocks per key, locks at two thirds, no stake, no slashing. No lock in the first 30 days of mainnet.
Run the vectors yourself: git clone https://github.com/igneum-network/spec && cd spec/igneum-pow && cargo test --release (96 vectors per pack; three GPU vendors, one fingerprint over 16.7 million nonces). The hash-rate reproduction package follows on igneum.network/evidence; your card's result file gets a row.
Costs: the miner software takes 1% (1 block in 100, off with --dev-fee 0). The protocol takes nothing. No cryptographer is hired yet; the review brief is USD 80,000 to 160,000, unfunded. The installer is unsigned. The chip model is published: the strongest chip in it reaches 5x to 9x per joule against a 5090 before the lever we are gating, about 2x after, sources on the page.
Every criticism we expect is at igneum.network/ledger: 167 entries, 53 conceded, 7 open, dated. A new one goes in with your name. "Don't ASICs make a chain safer?" is answered with numbers at igneum.network/litepaper#don-t-asics-make-a-chain-safer.
We want help: cryptographers, node engineers, miners who will test. Pick an open row on the ledger and write to hello@igneum.network.
Litepaper: igneum.network/litepaper. Live: igneum.network/live. Nothing is for sale.