Freedom Coin ============ Frequently Asked Questions Sage Kratos Sound money. Quantum proof. No masters. The basics ---------- What is Freedom Coin? A proof-of-work cryptocurrency, written from scratch in Rust, designed to be sound money that can survive the arrival of quantum computers. It has a fixed supply of 10,000,000 coins, no company or controlling party, and rules that no one can change. Coins are mined on ordinary computers, on an open and public network. How is it different from other cryptocurrencies? Its cryptography is post-quantum from the first block. Most coins protect ownership with elliptic-curve signatures that a large quantum computer is expected to break. Freedom Coin uses the post-quantum standards that the United States standards body finalized in 2024 instead, and pairs them with the properties that make money sound: a hard supply cap, a transparent ledger, and no one in charge. Is this a privacy coin like Monero? No, and that is a deliberate choice. Freedom Coin uses a fully transparent ledger, the same open accounting model as most public chains. It does not hide amounts or addresses, because transparency is what lets anyone audit the total supply and what makes the coin straightforward for exchanges to support. If on-chain anonymity is what you need, Freedom Coin is not built for it. Fairness and trust ------------------ Is there a pre-mine, a founder reward, or a token sale? None of those. There was no pre-mine, no founder allocation, no presale, and no initial coin offering. The genesis block creates no spendable coins for anyone. Every coin that exists was mined in public on the open network, starting at the first block, and you can confirm this yourself in the code and on the chain. Why should I trust an anonymous creator? You are not asked to. The whole point of the design is that the creator holds no special power: no administrative key, and no way to change the rules, mint coins, freeze funds, or reverse a payment. The rules are fixed at the genesis block, the code is open source, and the build is reproducible. Trust the math you can check, not the person who wrote it. What happens if the creator disappears? The network is built to keep running without them. It depends on no central server, peers find one another through several independent paths, the software is open source under a permissive license, and no one holds a key that the network needs to function. The creator being pseudonymous, and able to step away entirely, is part of the design rather than a weakness in it. What if the website or a hosting platform goes down? The project deliberately does not depend on any single link staying online. The source code is permanently available through Arweave, a storage network where a one-time payment guarantees decades of availability with no ongoing hosting required, and it is also distributed as a torrent that grows more resilient as more people download and keep seeding it. If any single source — a hosting platform, a website — ever became unavailable, the project's Nostr identity (published in the README) is the one place to check for current status and where everything else can be found, since it has no single point of failure of its own. How do I know this isn't a scam? Ask what a scam would need, then check whether it is here. There is no presale collecting your money, no promise of returns, no insider stake waiting to be dumped on you, and nothing you are asked to buy. The whole system is open source, the binaries can be rebuilt from that source and checked, and the fair launch can be watched block by block. The project's answer to suspicion is always the same: do not trust it, verify it. The quantum question -------------------- Is Freedom Coin really "quantum proof"? The honest answer is that it is quantum-resistant, not magically unbreakable. "Quantum proof" is the project's slogan; the precise claim is that ownership and the network are protected by the post-quantum algorithms NIST standardized in 2024, rather than by cryptography already known to fall to quantum computers. No serious cryptographer claims any system is unbreakable forever, and this project does not claim it either. What it offers is the strongest standardized defense available today, built in from the very start. What exactly is protected against quantum computers? Three things. Coins are owned and spent using Dilithium5 signatures (NIST FIPS 204). The peer-to-peer network is encrypted with Kyber1024 (NIST FIPS 203). And all security-critical hashing is 512-bit, which keeps a strong margin against quantum search. Together these cover the parts of the system a quantum computer would otherwise threaten. Mining and supply ----------------- Do I need special hardware to mine? No. The proof-of-work is memory-hard and tuned for ordinary processors, so there is no specialized-hardware arms race. A normal laptop or desktop can mine. The Mining Guide walks through both the simple launcher and the command line. How many coins are there, and how are they released? Ten million, ever. They are released over one hundred years on a smooth, predictable curve, with no halving events. The first year carries a higher reward to help bootstrap the network, and issuance then declines gently until it stops. After that, no new coins are ever created. What pays for security once all the coins are mined? Transaction fees. The project is honest that the long-term sufficiency of a pure fee market is an open question for every capped coin, not something anyone has fully solved. Freedom Coin's design works to keep fees meaningful as the subsidy fades, using a scarcity-linked fee floor that rises as the supply runs out, but it does not pretend the question is closed. Using it -------- What wallet do I use, and how do I recover it? A command-line wallet and a local graphical wallet ship with the project, and a friendly launcher covers everyone else. A wallet is restored from a 24-word recovery phrase. Keep that phrase offline and private: it is the only way back into your wallet, and anyone who has it controls your coins. Step-by-step recovery is in the Mining Guide. Where can I see the chain? Your own node serves a live dashboard and a block explorer in your browser, at 127.0.0.1:9932/dashboard and 127.0.0.1:9932/explorer. Can exchanges and other services list it? Yes, and they need no one's permission. The node offers a familiar interface for integration, a transparent supply that can be audited, and clear settlement rules. The Ecosystem Guide covers what is built in for exchanges, mining pools, and developers. Risk ---- Is this an investment? No, and nothing here is investment advice. Freedom Coin is new, experimental software, with no team promising anything and no masters steering it. Like anything new, it carries real risk, and its value could fall to nothing. Take part because you value sound, open, quantum-resistant money, not because anyone has guaranteed you a return. Sound money. Quantum proof. No masters.