CPU-only by design
RandomX uses a 2 GiB dataset, IEEE-754 floats, and runtime-generated VM programs. ASICs can't compete with general-purpose silicon — Monero has proved this since 2019.
v1.0.0 — RandomX era
Open-source cryptocurrency
that mines on any CPU.
FlowCoin is a Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency secured by RandomX — the CPU-oriented, memory-hard algorithm used by Monero. No ASICs. No GPUs. No premine. No ICO.
21MMax supply
10 minBlock time
50 FLOWInitial reward
210KBlocks per halving
Why FlowCoin
Bitcoin's monetary policy. Monero's mining fairness. Modern cryptography.
Bitcoin's monetary policy
21 million total supply. Halving every 210,000 blocks. 10-minute target. Exactly the same economic properties that made Bitcoin work — just more accessible mining.
Bitcoin-compatible tooling
Wire-compatible P2P. Bitcoin-Core-style JSON-RPC. Cookie auth. Same command-line patterns. If a tool works with bitcoind, it likely works with flowcoind.
No premine, no ICO
Every single FLOW is mined from genesis on. No developer tax, no treasury, no venture allocation. The only way to get coins is to mine them or receive them.
Modern cryptography
Ed25519 signatures (RFC 8032). keccak256d block IDs and merkle roots. Real Bech32 v0 addresses — structurally identical to Bitcoin P2WPKH, just with the fl prefix.
Audit-friendly codebase
Vendored dependencies, no hidden magic. ~126K lines of C++20. 55 assert-based test groups covering consensus, crypto, network, wallet. Reproducible builds.
Start mining in three commands
On a typical Linux box — no pool, no account, no registration.
# Install build deps (Ubuntu / Debian)
$ sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake git
# Build FlowCoin
$ git clone https://github.com/KristianPilatovich/flowcoin.git
$ cd flowcoin && cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
# Start node + miner
$ ./build/flowcoind -daemon
$ ./build/flowcoin-miner --cookie ~/.flowcoin/.cookieFull mining guide: Documentation → Mining. Benchmarks and hardware tables in the mining doc.