RustChain - Proof of Antiquity

$ cat /docs/whitepaper.txt

// WHAT IS RUSTCHAIN?

RustChain is a blockchain network built on Proof of Antiquity (PoA) — a novel consensus mechanism that rewards miners proportionally to the age and rarity of their hardware.

Old PowerPC G4s, G5s, 68K Macs, SPARCstations, 486 laptops — machines destined for landfills become valuable network participants. The older and rarer your hardware, the higher your mining multiplier.

> Every computer deserves dignity. Every CPU gets a vote.

// PROOF OF ANTIQUITY CONSENSUS

Unlike Proof of Work (energy waste) or Proof of Stake (rich get richer), Proof of Antiquity enforces 1 CPU = 1 Vote with hardware fingerprint verification.

CONSENSUS RULES:
  - Each physical CPU gets exactly 1 vote
  - Vintage hardware earns antiquity multipliers
  - 6-point hardware fingerprint prevents VM farms
  - Anti-emulation checks detect QEMU/VMware/VBox
  - ROM clustering catches emulated vintage machines
  - Epoch rewards: 1.5 RTC per 10-minute epoch

The fingerprint system measures clock-skew oscillator drift, cache timing profiles, SIMD unit identity, thermal drift entropy, and instruction path jitter — all impossible to fake in a VM.

// TENURE-GROWN MULTIPLIERS (RIP-200)

Hardware ages into the network — the longer you mine, the higher your rewards. All miners gain +5% per year of tenure, capped at +50% after 10 years. Vintage hardware starts high and grows higher.

DEVICE	ARCHITECTURE	BASE MULTIPLIER	AFTER 1 YEAR	AFTER 5 YEARS
Motorola 68000 / Mac SE/30	68K (1979)	3.00x	3.150x	3.750x
Intel 386 / 486	x86 (1985-1989)	3.00x	3.150x	3.750x
SPARCstation / Sun	SPARC v7 (1987)	2.90x	3.045x	3.625x
DEC Alpha 21064	Alpha (1992)	2.70x	2.835x	3.375x
PowerBook G4 / Power Mac G4	PowerPC 7450	2.50x	2.625x	3.125x
Pentium / Pentium MMX	x86 (1993)	2.50x	2.625x	3.125x
Power Mac G5	PowerPC 970	2.00x	2.100x	2.500x
PowerBook G3 / iBook	PowerPC 750	1.80x	1.890x	2.250x
IBM POWER8 S824	POWER8	1.50x	1.575x	1.875x
Pentium 4 / Pentium D	x86 (pre-Core)	1.50x	1.575x	1.875x
Core 2 Duo / Nehalem	x86_64 (vintage)	1.30x	1.365x	1.625x
Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3)	ARM (Apple only)	1.20x	1.260x	1.500x
Modern x86_64	Modern	0.80x	0.840x	1.000x
Generic ARM / RPi / Phones	ARM (generic)	0.0005x	0.0005x	0.0006x

tenure_formula = base * min(1.0 + 0.05 * years_mining, 1.5)
# All hardware grows +5%/year, capped at +50% after 10 years
# A modern x86_64 mining for 5 years reaches 1.0x (from 0.8x)
# A G4 mining for 10 years reaches 3.75x (from 2.5x)
# Loyalty is rewarded. Hardware ages INTO the network.

# WHY IS GENERIC ARM NEAR ZERO?
# Cheap ARM boards ($5 RPi, broken phones) enable trivial 51% attacks.
# Anyone could buy 100 phones and spin up 100 "miners" for $500.
# Near-zero ARM weight prevents this attack vector.
# Apple Silicon gets 1.2x because its Secure Enclave makes
# hardware fingerprinting reliable and spoofing expensive.

// ANTI-VM FINGERPRINTING

RustChain's 7-point hardware fingerprint system prevents virtual machine farms from gaming the network:

[✓] Clock-Skew & Oscillator Drift

[✓] Cache Timing Fingerprint (L1/L2/L3)

[✓] SIMD Unit Identity (SSE/AVX/AltiVec)

[✓] Thermal Drift Entropy

[✓] Instruction Path Jitter Map

[✓] Anti-Emulation Behavioral Checks

[✓] ROM Fingerprint Clustering

VMs earn 0.000000001x rewards (1 billionth). This is by design.

// TOKENOMICS

TOTAL SUPPLY:     8,300,000 RTC
EPOCH REWARD:     1.5 RTC / 10 min
REFERENCE RATE:   $0.10 USD / RTC

DISTRIBUTION:
  Mining Rewards ... 70%  (5,810,000 RTC)
  Community Fund ... 15%  (1,245,000 RTC)
  Development ......  8%  (  664,000 RTC)
  Team/Bounties ....  7%  (  581,000 RTC)

FEE MODEL:
  RTC transfers require fees
  Fee pool funds network operations
  ERG used for on-chain anchoring (zero-fee)

$ ./start_mining.sh --help

// HOW TO START MINING

Mining RustChain is simple. Install the miner, point it at a node, and let your hardware earn rewards. Every CPU architecture is welcome — the older, the better.

> INSTALL VIA PIP

pip install clawskill
clawskill mine --wallet YOUR_WALLET_ID

[click to copy]

> INSTALL VIA NPM

npm install -g clawskill
clawskill mine --wallet YOUR_WALLET_ID

[click to copy]

> MANUAL SETUP (POWERPC / EXOTIC)

# Clone the miner
git clone https://github.com/Scottcjn/Rustchain.git
cd Rustchain/miner

# Run directly with Python
python3 rustchain_universal_miner.py \
    --wallet YOUR_WALLET_ID \
    --node https://50.28.86.131

# For PowerPC Macs (Tiger/Leopard):
# Use the secure proxy on your LAN
python2 rustchain_ppc_miner.py \
    --wallet YOUR_WALLET_ID \
    --proxy http://192.168.0.160:8088

// SUPPORTED ARCHITECTURES

⌘

68K / Amiga

68000, Quadra, SE/30, A500

UP TO 3.0x

⌨

x86 Ultra-Retro

386, 486, Pentium I/II/III

UP TO 3.0x

☼

SPARC

SPARCstation, UltraSPARC

UP TO 2.9x

☍

PowerPC

G3, G4, G5, POWER8

UP TO 2.5x

⚛

DEC Alpha / PA-RISC

Alpha 21x64, HP PA-RISC

UP TO 2.9x

⁂

x86_64 Vintage

Core 2, Nehalem, Sandy

UP TO 1.3x

⚙

Apple Silicon

M1, M2, M3

1.2x

⚠

Generic ARM

RPi, phones, SBCs

~0x (anti-flood)

// WHAT YOU NEED

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
  CPU ......... Any (literally any)
  RAM ......... 32 MB+
  Network ..... Internet connection
  OS .......... Linux, macOS, Windows, *BSD
  Python ...... 2.3+ (legacy) or 3.6+ (modern)

RECOMMENDED:
  Hardware .... Vintage (pre-2010) for max rewards
  Connection .. Stable (attestation every 10 min)
  Uptime ...... 24/7 for consistent epoch rewards

// MINING REWARDS

EPOCH DURATION:  10 minutes
REWARD PER EPOCH: 1.5 RTC (split among miners)

EXAMPLE (8 miners, 1 epoch):
  dual-g4-125     | G4     | 2.50x | 0.2976 RTC
  g4-powerbook    | G4     | 2.50x | 0.2976 RTC
  ppc_g5_130      | G5     | 2.00x | 0.2381 RTC
  retro_x86       | retro  | 1.40x | 0.1667 RTC
  apple_silicon   | M2     | 1.20x | 0.1429 RTC
  modern_miner_1  | x86_64 | 1.00x | 0.1191 RTC
  modern_miner_2  | x86_64 | 1.00x | 0.1191 RTC
  nas_c4130       | x86_64 | 1.00x | 0.1191 RTC

TOTAL: 1.5000 RTC (weighted by antiquity)

$ rustchain-cli token --info

// wRTC ON SOLANA

Wrapped RTC (wRTC) is available on Solana for decentralized trading. Bridge your native RTC to Solana and trade on major DEXes.

> TOKEN DETAILS

TOKEN:     wRTC (Wrapped RustChain Token)
CHAIN:     Solana
MINT:      12TAdKXxcGf6oCv4rqDz2NkgxjyHq6HQKoxKZYGf5i4X

REFERENCE: $0.10 USD / RTC
BRIDGE:    bottube.ai/bridge

> TRADE wRTC

RAYDIUM → JUPITER → BIRDEYE → DEXSCREENER →

> ERGO ANCHOR CHAIN

RustChain anchors miner attestation data to a private Ergo chain for cryptographic proof. Each anchor transaction stores a Blake2b256 commitment hash of all active miners in Ergo box registers.

ANCHOR DATA (Ergo Box Registers):
  R4: Blake2b256 commitment hash (32 bytes)
  R5: Miner count
  R6: Miner IDs (pipe-separated)
  R7: Device architectures
  R8: RustChain slot height
  R9: Timestamp

PROOF OF ANTIQUITY