Ghost Core · Bitcoin Ghost

the mesh

Nodes keeping Ghost alive.

The mesh is the pool. Every node can propose payouts, validate blocks, vote in BFT consensus. No distinction is drawn between clearnet and Tor nodes — operators choose how to run, the mesh counts them the same way. This page reports only aggregates so individual operators stay invisible.

active nodes over time

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pending payouts

Queued for the next coinbase.

Ghost distributes the pool fee atomically every block — nothing held in custody, nothing accrued off-chain. These are the amounts that will land in the next block's coinbase the moment Ghost finds one.

to miners

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99% of subsidy, proportional to unpaid work

to node reward pool

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0.5% of subsidy · to top 100 nodes

to treasury

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0.5% of subsidy · frozen at 21 BTC

Ghost Pay fees also flow into the node reward pool on L2 settlement (feature under integration). Transaction fees from the winning block go in full to whichever node finds it.

lifetime totals

Paid into the node reward pool so far.

Running sum of every satoshi that has ever been committed to the node reward pool across Ghost's mainnet history. Coinbase payments are authoritative — aggregated from every approved payout proposal on-chain.

via coinbase

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paid across all blocks found

via ghost pay (l2)

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from L2 settlement fees

total paid

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cumulative across L1 + L2

Treasury's cumulative total is the live treasury balance shown in the state section below — every satoshi the treasury has ever received is still in that address (frozen once it hits 21 BTC).

phase · bootstrap

Bootstrap → Decentralising → Sovereign.

Three phases. One direction. No governance vote needed — the transition is driven mechanically by the treasury balance and a fixed calendar.

Bootstrap

Treasury fills to 21 BTC at 0.5% per block. Pool fee split 50/50 between treasury and node reward pool.
Decentralising

Threshold reached. Treasury's share of each pool fee steps down by 10 percentage points per year over five years.
Sovereign

Decay complete. 100% of every pool fee goes to the node reward pool. Ghost is fully operator-owned.

live state

Where we are right now.

treasury

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0.00% of 21 BTC

current fee split

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treasury / node pool

decay year

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of 5 post-threshold

elders registered

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of 101

block height

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— blocks found by ghost

pool hashrate

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— active miners

principles

What stays true in every phase.

No pre-mine

Every satoshi enters circulation via a mined block. No founder allocation, no insider grant.
No foundation, no company

Open source under MIT. The protocol is the protocol. No entity can change the rules unilaterally.
Non-custodial by design

The pool never holds miner funds. Every payout is an on-chain coinbase output direct to the miner's address.
Run your own node

A home server, pc or laptop running Bitcoin Ghost can be a Ghost node. No whitelisting, no permission, no minimum stake.
Operator-defined policy

Every node sets its own mempool policy. There is no canonical "Ghost policy" — the mesh doesn't care what transactions you include.
Treasury decays to zero

The bootstrap mechanism is designed to extinguish itself. After 21 BTC received and five years of decay, 100% of the pool fee goes to node operators.

roadmap

Where we've been, where we're going.

shipped

Ghost v1.8.0 mainnet observe mode
Four-node BFT mesh live
MPC trusted-setup ceremony complete
Ghost mining pool
Ledger-style payout model

active

Per-miner dashboards on bitcoinghost.org
Ghost Pay L2 integration with node reward pool
Real-share quasar visualisation
Operator documentation

Public mining from arbitrary nodes
Ghost Tap mobile wallet alpha
First mainnet block (fingers crossed)
Treasury threshold and decay begins

Ghost Core.