From the early web
A Faucet Balance Is Not a Blockchain Balance
The recovered 2016 BlackCoin.info pages reveal a useful distinction between a website's account credit and an on-chain payment.
Follow the accounting ↗An independent history & technology journalSources 2014–2017 · New essays 2026
The early web. The public ledger.
Small coin.
Long memory.
A history and technology journal about proof of stake, public ledgers and the early BlackCoin.info pages. Original records, read with context.
2014A redirect toward the project website.
2016A faucet, an account and a claim message.
2017A later interface and a recorded error state.
The distinction that matters
Read what the balance means.
Ideas worth separating · Proof of stake, privacy, software & evidence
Proof-of-stake foundations
Why Staking Is Not a Savings Account
Separate block production, protocol issuance, participation and asset price before interpreting a staking percentage.
Read the essay ↗Proof-of-stake foundations
A Block Target Is Not a Delivery Promise
Follow a payment through broadcast, block inclusion and application credit without treating a target interval as a stopwatch.
Read the essay ↗Reading the ledger
A Public Ledger Can Have Pseudonymous Users
Understand why transparent transaction records and the absence of account-registration names do not amount to a promise of anonymity.
Read the essay ↗Wallet literacy
A Wallet Release Needs an Evidence Trail
Publisher identity, checksums, signatures, release notes and network compatibility answer different questions about a software release.
Read the essay ↗Reading the ledger
Small Units, Real Arithmetic
A historical faucet offers a compact lesson in amounts, unit scales, claim intervals, thresholds and net withdrawals.
Read the essay ↗Protocol literacy
A Protocol Version Is More Than a Number
Separate a proposal, its implementation, a software release and network activation before describing a protocol upgrade.
Read the essay ↗From the early web
Keep the Interface, Retire the Promise
How a redirect and a few faucet pages can become an honest historical collection without pretending that the original service has returned.
Read the essay ↗This is an independent editorial and archive edition, not the official BlackCoin project website or a reopened faucet. It does not accept claims, maintain balances or process withdrawals. How this collection was made →