Free NORTH, on the house
The Canadian coin you mine with a CPU, and your first coins are on us. No purchase, no exchange, no catch: make a wallet right here, claim your NORTH, and you're holding a piece of Canada's community-mined currency in minutes. Funded by the TrueNorth developers. One claim per person.
- – NORTH per claim
- – claims waiting
- – claims the faucet can pay right now
- – paid in the last 24 hours
How it works
- Enter an email address from Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Yahoo or iCloud, and your NORTH address.
- We email you a link. Opening it confirms your claim and puts it in the queue.
- Payouts go out within about 5 minutes of confirming. The faucet is funded by the TrueNorth developers, who mine blocks for it: up to one a day, sometimes fewer. When it runs short, claims wait in the queue until the next block arrives.
- Each email address and each NORTH address can claim once, and each internet connection once a day.
No address yet?
Make one here: 12 recovery words and their address, created in your browser. The faucet never holds coins for you, and nobody else ever sees your words. Get started also shows how to make an address with TrueNorth Core.
Makes 12 recovery words and their address right here in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere or saved.
These 12 words are your NORTH. Write them on paper or print them, in order, now. Don't screenshot them, email them or save them online. Anyone who sees them can take your coins, and nobody, including us, can recover them if they're lost. Use this for small amounts while you try TrueNorth.
Your address:
Keep this paper safe and private. Anyone who has these words can take the coins at this address.
Check your copy
Type these words from your copy:
That doesn't match. Check your copy, or show the words again.
Done. Your address is in the claim form above. Keep your paper safe: it's the only way to spend these coins.
Spend your NORTH later (TrueNorth Core)
To spend, load your words into TrueNorth Core. Type them here and this page shows the commands; like everything here, it runs only in your browser.
Those aren't 12 valid recovery words. Check the spelling and order.
These commands contain your private key. Run them on your own computer, then clear the page.
These words belong to
In TrueNorth Core's bin folder, with truenorthd running and fully synced: create an encrypted wallet (pick your own passphrase instead of "your passphrase"), unlock it, import your keys, then check the balance. Core scans the whole chain, which can take a few minutes. How to install TrueNorth Core
Mine your own NORTH
Liked your first coins? Mine more. TrueNorth is mined with an ordinary computer's CPU: no graphics card, no special hardware. The address you just made works as your mining address.
- Join a pool for small, steady payouts. Choosing a pool compares the public pools side by side: fees, payout terms and whether their software is open source. With every pool listed there, your address is your login, so there's nothing to sign up for.
- Mine solo with your own node and the official release, and any block you find pays you directly. Get started walks you through it.
Mining keeps your CPU busy while it runs, so expect more power use, heat and fan noise. Start it when you're not using the computer for much else.
What we keep
Your email address is used once, to send the confirmation link, and isn't stored: we keep only a one-way code made from it, so the same address can't claim twice. Your IP address is kept the same way, as a one-way code, for two days. We keep your NORTH address and the payout, which are public on the blockchain anyway. Details are on the privacy page.