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<p>I am sharing a "paper" draft that proposes discovering and distributing new digital "currencies" through large-scale, collaborative mining of extremely rare, human-recognizable smart contract addresses (e.g., one beginning with a meaningful prefix like 0xBadFace0fBeef1... on Ethereum).</p>
<p>The goal is to create Proof-of-Work artifacts on (Proof-of-Stake) smart contract blockchains that cannot be produced by any single participant at reasonable cost, then distribute the resulting tokenized address as a currency proportionally to all contributors, avoiding pre-sales and privileged issuance. This approach draws on and extends early Proof-of-Work currency proposals, with an emphasis on fairness, verifiable effort, and cultural recognizability - and on reducing the concentration of monetary creation power.</p>
<p>Full draft:<br />https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16734327</p>
<p>Feedback on technical feasibility, share registration mechanisms, and economic implications would be greatly appreciated. Benchmarks from different GPU models for Ethereum CREATE2 opcode mining would also be valuable. While the paper focuses on Ethereum, the concept could be adapted to other blockchains and may have broader implications for how currencies are created and who benefits from their issuance.</p>
<p>Tristan Badface<br />tristan@0xbadface.xyz</p>
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