[ANN] BitVault (BVT) — Multi-algorithm Proof-of-Work Layer 1 | Mainnet live | Open source

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Mainnet running since 28 August 2026 · official launch 7 February 2027
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What BitVault is
BitVault (BVT) is the native coin of the BitVault blockchain, an independent proof-of-work Layer 1 built on the Bitcoin/DigiByte codebase. There is no token contract: BVT exists only on the BitVault chain.
Specifications
Name / ticker: BitVault (BVT). Please use the full name "BitVault"; other projects use similar names.
Consensus: proof of work, 11 rotating mining algorithms
Target block time: 60 seconds
Block reward: 3,000 BVT base, plus up to 10% diversity bonus
Halving: every 5,259,600 blocks (about 10 years)
Maximum supply: no hard cap
Premine: 50,000,000,000 BVT, created at block 20,085 (full disclosure below)
Mainnet running since: 28 August 2026 · official launch: 7 February 2027
Premine — full disclosure
50,000,000,000 BVT were created at block 20,085 through a network upgrade. They are held in 10 published cold addresses (listed at bitvault.club/listings) controlled by the BitVault Founding Team, and are excluded from the circulating supply figure. Anyone can check those balances on the explorer.
Purpose: ecosystem and development (development, servers, audits and grants), a founding-team reserve, and a staking / rewards pool to be paid out to users later.
Lock: there is no lock or release schedule yet. Any movement from the 10 cold addresses is public on the explorer.
For scale: about 6.5 million BVT were in circulation on 9 October 2026, so the premine is about 7,600 times larger than the circulating supply.
Mined supply: about 107.9 million BVT had been mined since genesis by 9 October 2026. The circulating figure counts about 6.5 million of them; the other ~101.4 million were mined by the founding team's own mining machines and are held in team wallets.
Live supply (machine-readable)
Total: https://tracker.bitvault.club/supply/bvt/total.txt
Circulating: https://tracker.bitvault.club/supply/bvt/circulating.txt
Run a node
Linux x86_64 binaries with SHA256SUMS: release v8.26.2. Verify with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.
Build from source: BUILDING-BITVAULT.md in the repository.
Seed nodes: seed.bitvault.club and dnsseed.bitvault.club (built into the node, P2P port 29433). If your node finds no peers, add this line to bitvault.conf:

addnode=seed.bitvault.club:29433

Mining
Algorithms: SHA256d, Scrypt, Groestl, Skein, Qubit, Equihash, Ethash, Odo, RandomX, VersaHash, KHeavyHash
Official pool: BVT Pool — bitvaultpool.com (PPLNS or SOLO, 1% fee, your bv1 address is your login)

SHA256d   stratum+tcp://bvt.bitvaultpool.com:3333
Skein     stratum+tcp://bvt.bitvaultpool.com:3340
Qubit     stratum+tcp://bvt.bitvaultpool.com:3341
Groestl   stratum+tcp://bvt.bitvaultpool.com:3342

Solo mining with bitvaultd also works.
Where things stand (honest status)
BVT is not traded on any exchange yet. There was no ICO, IEO or token sale.
Most coins mined so far were mined by the founding team's own machines.
No third-party security audit yet.
The company behind the project is not yet incorporated (registration is planned).
The team is pseudonymous (BitVault Founding Team).
Official accounts: X @BitVaultBVT and Telegram t.me/BitVaultBVT. Any other account claiming to be BitVault (for example "BitVault Official" on Telegram) is not us.
Safety
BVT has no token on BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum or BVM20. Older tokens that used the BVT, BRUSD or BRINR names are retired and have no value — see bitvault.club/notice.
BitVault is not related to BitVault Signal (BV7X), BitVault Token (BITVAU), Bovine Verse Token or BLOCKVAULT TOKEN.
The team never DMs first, never sells "listing slots" and never asks for seed phrases or private keys.
Contact: support@bitvault.club · X @BitVaultBVT · Telegram t.me/BitVaultBVT
This post describes the software and the network. It is not investment advice.