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Chapter 00 — the trailhead

SHOECOIN

The Coin With a Sole.

“Every blockchain leaves a footprint.”

Enter the archive ↓
Recovered from the Bitcointalk archives.
Shoe print pressed into sand
scroll to walk the timeline
2009

Bitcoin is born.

One block, mined into an empty ledger. No price. No chart. No audience. Just the first mark in the sand.

bitcoind — genesis03 JAN 2009
$ bitcoind -datadir=. -daemon
block 0 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93
merkle 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f
nonce 2083236893
status chain height 1 — 50.00 coinbase
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2011

Altcoins begin appearing.

The forums fill with forks. Some survive. Most don't. Every one of them leaves a footprint in the ledger of the internet.

APR 2011
Namecoin
The first fork. Names on chain.
OCT 2011
Litecoin
Scrypt. Faster blocks. The silver.
AUG 2012
Peercoin
Proof of stake, before it was cool.
Chapter 03 — the archive opens
2014

Someone posts about a shoe.

Alternate cryptocurrencies › Announcements (Altcoins)Topic: [ANN] SHOEcoin
ORIGINAL AVATAR
Joeswhite
Jr. Member · Activity: 42 · Merit: 0
Re: [ANN] SHOEcoin — the coin with a soleJanuary 05, 2014, 11:42:18 PM

I have completed the code for shoe coin. It is a scrypt coin, 1 minute blocks, 50 coin reward. I am not a great coder so please be gentle. The source is up on github if anyone wants to look at it or build the wallet.

Everyone needs shoes. — Joeswhite

Open the repository → github.com/joeswhite/shoecoin
Chapter 04 — the source

shoecoin / src

View on GitHub ↗
master · 5 commitslast commit Feb 2014
wallet.cppinitial commit
main.cppblock reward 50
shoecoin.confrpc defaults
READMEeveryone needs shoes
shoecoin.conf
rpcuser=shoeuser
rpcpassword=********
addnode=node1.shoecoin.org
blocktime=60
reward=50
WRITTEN BY
Joeswhite majority
Beastlymac
Chapter 05 — twelve years of nothing

Silence.

Last commit. No answer on the thread.
The wallet stops building on modern compilers.
Dust. Cobwebs. The repository is abandoned.
The footprints stop.
2026

Someone found it.

One footprint appears.
Then another. Someone remembered.
Then another. The community arrives.

Join The Walk.

A 2014 repository, picked back up by the people who found it. No promises — just a trail worth following.

ORIGINAL COMMITS
0
WALLETS WALKING
0
YEARS DORMANT
0
BLOCK REWARD
50
The Roadmap
STEP 01
Reclaim the story. The archive goes public.
STEP 02
Fair launch. Liquidity burned, contract renounced.
STEP 03
The Museum — every original file, on-chain and readable.
STEP 04
Shoes on real feet. Community-funded donations.
CONTRACT
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Shoecoin — the coin with a sole Every coin leaves a footprint Est. January 5, 2014