Decentralized. Secure. Argon2id.
Dpowcoin Core is an open-source cryptocurrency implementing the Argon2id proof-of-work algorithm — ASIC-resistant, memory-hard, and built for fair mining.
Cryptocurrency is a risky asset. We do not guarantee you profit or wealth. Anyone who promises that is lying. The only thing we can guarantee is this: the project's code is released under the MIT license, open to audit, and as long as the project has active contributors and a living community, we will keep it up to date and fix bugs. The coin's future, its price, liquidity, and demand, depends on the market and on you, not on us. Any investment is made entirely at your own risk. We don't promise mountains of gold. We tell it as it is, even when that's not to the project's advantage and runs against the trend of everyone else lying. Cryptocurrency was originally conceived as an alternative to fiat money. In practice, it has, in the overwhelming majority of cases, become a speculative asset, something traded and bet on for future price movement rather than used for everyday payments. We don't hide this reality, and we don't pretend this project is somehow an exception by default. So before investing, buying, or mining, anyone who believes in this project's future should first research the project and its source code, figure out whether it has any real use cases and what they are, and honestly answer for themselves why they personally want to hold or buy this coin. Only once genuinely convinced the project is worth their interest should they get involved. By contributing to development, promoting the project, listing it on an exchange, adding it to a mining pool, building services that accept the coin, mining and securing the network, simply holding it, or trading it speculatively on an exchange. Any of these roles is legitimate, but an informed decision should always come before participation.
Argon2id Algorithm
Memory-hard proof-of-work resistant to ASIC mining. Fair distribution through CPU accessibility.
Open Source
Fully open-source under the MIT license. Auditable, forkable, community-driven development on GitHub.
Reproducible Builds
Deterministic builds via GNU Guix. Every binary is independently verifiable. GPG-signed release attestations.
Coin Specification
Full technical parameters of the Dpowcoin (DPC) network
Block hash: salt = SHA-512(SHA-512(header)); h1 = Argon2id(header, salt, m=4MB, t=2, p=2); PoW = Argon2id(header, salt=h1, m=32MB, t=2, p=2). Two chained Argon2id passes, salted by a double SHA-512 digest of the header — memory-hard and ASIC-resistant by design.
Dpowcoin Core is an open-source cryptocurrency implementing the Argon2id proof-of-work algorithm — ASIC-resistant, memory-hard, and built for fair mining.
Version bytes shown as decimal and hex. All address types are 34 characters.
Network Upgrade
Yespower is being dropped from consensus at block 225,000 — Dpowcoin becomes Argon2id-only going forward.
Before block 225,000, Dpowcoin validated every header with two independent proof-of-work checks sharing one target: hash = { Yespower(header), Argon2id(header) }, valid ⇔ both hashes ≤ target(nBits). Yespower was checked first as a cheap filter; Argon2id was only computed if Yespower passed.
Because both algorithms shared the same target, Yespower added no real security beyond what Argon2id already provides, while doubling the work LWMA has to account for and complicating the codebase for no measurable benefit to the network. Since the two checks are independent, dropping Yespower does not change difficulty adjustment or chain weight — both are fully algorithm-agnostic. The Dual PoW idea was worth trying, but this implementation created more problems than it solved. The “Dual PoW” name is kept for historical reasons only.
No action is required. Because Yespower and Argon2id always shared the same target, mining software built on Argon2id continues to work unchanged before and after block 225,000. Light SPV wallets can rely on Argon2id alone for verification, since SHA-512 and Argon2id libraries are available on virtually every platform.
We do not use “delayed PoW” technology and are not affiliated with Komodo or its projects. Before block 225,000, Dpowcoin used a Dual PoW consisting of Yespower and Argon2id, where Argon2id itself is computed as two chained rounds salted with double SHA-512.
Not affiliated with Komodo — no delayed PoW