A Canadian coin you mine with a CPU.
TrueNorth is a fork of Bitcoin Core with its own proof of work, RandomNorth, built so ordinary processors can mine it. No presale, no premine, no founder allocation and no protocol dev fee. Mainnet has been running since October 12, 2026.
The chain right now
Updated 2026-10-27 00:32 UTCMore numbers, the emission schedule and seed nodes are on the Network page.
Get started
Full guide →Any 64-bit CPU will do; one with hardware AES, which almost every CPU from the last ten years has, is much faster. Plan on about 3 GB of free RAM for the node and miner together.
Download and verify
Get the release for Linux, macOS or Windows from the official GitHub releases page. Check it against SHA256SUMS and its signature before you run anything.
Run a node and make a wallet
Start truenorthd, let it sync, then create and encrypt a wallet. Your address starts with north1z. Back the wallet up somewhere off that machine.
Mine solo or join a pool
Solo: run truenorth-miner against your own node and keep every block you find. Pool: smaller, steadier payouts. Compare the pools first.
Who is mining
Compare pools →Share of the last day's blocks. The project's mining policy asks every pool to stay under 33% of the network.
Community
- GitHubSource, releases, issues
- GitHub DiscussionsQuestions and ideas
- Project websitetruenorth-project.github.io
- #truenorth · #truenorth-devIRC on OFTC
- npub1w2kxm7jq9yn…ejqyw5Nostr
The project has no official Twitter/X, Discord, Telegram, Matrix or YouTube. Nobody from it will message you first or ask for your seed phrase. The full Nostr key is on the project website.
- r/TrueNorthCoinNews, help, weekly thread
- tnexplore.comBlock explorer
- seed.tor.tncoin.xyz:9555Public seed node