EPISODE XBT

THE BLAKE2B AWAKENS

It is a period of civil war. On the thirtieth day of August the chain broke from SHA-256 and was reforged in BLAKE2b.

In the Core Worlds, the pools of the GALACTIC EMPIRE build their miners' templates and keep the rewards in their own vaults. Their hashers mine blind, never seeing the blocks they forge.

Across the spiral arms, the REBELLION runs DATUM and pays every miner in the coinbase itself: each gateway a free world that builds its own template and answers only to its own node.

Beyond them, in the OUTER RIM, lone miners run their own nodes and claim whole blocks for themselves....

Every system is a pool. Every planet is a gateway. Every flash of light, a block.