browsercoin.org

I made a fully decentralized cryptocurrency that runs completely in your browser. **First, the important part: I'm not selling anything.** You can't buy my coin, you can't sell my coin, there is no market. This post is about the technology, not about finance. If you came here for a number that goes up, you're in the wrong place. **TL;DR:** I built a cryptocurrency that runs entirely in a browser tab. Open the page, you're a full node, no login or special hardware. Mining uses memory-hard Argon2id so a phone and a server farm have roughly equal odds. Bitcoin-shaped rules (21M cap, 50/block, halving), fully open source, no premine, no presale, no market. You can't buy it and I'm not selling anything if you want some mine them. It's a free experiment in how crypto actually works. [https://browsercoin.org/](https://browsercoin.org/) Okay. Now the fun stuff. Crypto has gone completely mainstream, but most people only ever see the chart. "Bitcoin is at $X, wow, crazy." The vast majority of people who *use* crypto are miles away from the actual technology. They don't know how it works and they're not part of any network. Every interaction goes through a third party that handles everything for them. And honestly that makes sense, because being part of a network like Bitcoin is genuinely hard now. It needs specialized hardware, and a normal computer isn't enough anymore. It didn't used to be like this. Back when Bitcoin launched in 2009, everyone who took part did it because they loved the idea, and you could do it from a regular computer. The difficulty wasn't out of this world. That gave me an idea. I wanted to build a cryptocurrency that runs **completely inside a webpage**. You open the page, and you *are* a full node. No centralized server with authority. A real decentralized currency that's as easy to take part in as opening a tab. No login, no signup, no specialized hardware, no nonsense. Even my grandma could do this. # What I was going for * **Truly decentral