EVERY COIN LEAVES A FOOTPRINT
SHOECOIN
The Coin With a Sole.
“Every blockchain leaves a footprint.” Recovered from the Bitcointalk archives. Open a folder on the left, or press a number key 1–7.
ORIGIN
2014
ALGO
SCRYPT
REWARD
50
STATUS
FOUND
FILE 01 — GENESIS.LOG
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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FILE 02 — FORKS.DAT
2011 — ALTCOINS APPEAR.
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.
FILE 03 — THREAD.TXT
2014 — SOMEONE POSTS ABOUT A SHOE.
bitcointalk › announcements (altcoins)[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
github.com/joeswhite/shoecoin
FILE 04 — SRC\
View on GitHub ↗
SHOECOIN / SRC
NONAMECOMMIT
01wallet.cppinitial commit
02main.cppblock reward 50
03shoecoin.confrpc defaults
04READMEeveryone needs shoes
MASTER · 5 COMMITSLAST FEB 2014
SHOECOIN.CONF
rpcuser=shoeuser
rpcpassword=********
addnode=node1.shoecoin.org
blocktime=60
reward=50
WRITTEN BY
Joeswhite majority
Beastlymac
FILE 05 — DORMANT.SYS · NO REVISIONS
SILENCE.
Last commit. No answer on the thread.
The wallet stops building on modern compilers.
Dust. Cobwebs. The repository is abandoned.
The footprints stop.
FILE 06 — REVIVAL.LOG
2026 — SOMEONE FOUND IT.
One footprint appears.
Then another. Someone remembered.
Then another. The community arrives.
FILE 07 — JOIN.EXE
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
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.