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Garlicoin's history

From a garlic bread joke on Reddit at Christmas 2017 to a block every 40 seconds today. Dates marked ⛓ on the chain come from the blockchain; the rest from the official roadmap ↗.

2017

  1. The idea is born. Reddit user u/DigitalizedOrange pitches a cryptocurrency for garlic bread lovers to the new r/garlicoin community.

2018

  1. The genesis block. Block 0, the first loaf. See it ↗
  2. Mainnet goes public at 2 pm Eastern. Anyone can mine, and the supply is capped at 69 million GRLC.
  3. SegWit switches on at block 24,192, later making cheap grlc1 addresses possible. See it ↗
  4. Goodbye scrypt, hello Allium. After block 58,670 mining moves to Allium, so graphics cards and CPUs can keep mining. How to mine today
  5. First halving at block 690,000: each block now pays 25 GRLC instead of 50.

2019

  1. Second halving at block 1,380,000: 12.5 GRLC per block.

2020

  1. Third halving at block 2,070,000: 6.25 GRLC per block.

2021

  1. Fourth halving at block 2,760,000: 3.125 GRLC per block.

2022

  1. Fifth halving at block 3,450,000: 1.5625 GRLC per block.

2023

  1. Sixth halving at block 4,140,000: 0.78125 GRLC per block.

2024–2025

  1. Seventh halving at block 4,830,000: 0.390625 GRLC per block.
  2. Eighth halving at block 5,520,000: 0.1953125 GRLC per block.

2026

  1. Ninth halving at block 6,210,000: 0.09765625 GRLC per block.
  2. garlicoin.org grows up: a daily Block Lotto drawn from a block hash, browser games, garlic names, the wall, a payment screen for stalls and the Garlicoin Wallet in your browser.
  3. Garlicoin Core 0.18.3 and 0.18.4, the first maintenance releases since 2022, from the new official GitHub organization ↗, fully compatible with existing wallets.
  4. Garlicoin Core 0.18.5 adds a native build for Apple Silicon Macs. Download it ↗

Next

  1. Tenth halving at block 6,900,000: 0.04882812 GRLC per block. Countdown
  2. The full Garlic Bread Dating Simulator, according to the roadmap. We'll wait.
More releases, year by year
  • 2018 An AMD miner, the Garlium light wallet and the Garlicoin Insight explorer are released.
  • 2019 GRLC.eu statistics, the FreshGRLC explorer and rich list, a FreiExchange listing (still where GRLC trades today: see the market) and a Discord tipbot.
  • 2020 Listings on Polarity Exchange and Crex24, the Reddit tipbot, a second airdrop and GRLC.eu payments.
  • 2021 A Garlicoin faucet, a new Discord tipbot, an Android wallet, a garlic game, new Garlicoin Core releases, the GRLC.eu web wallet, a wiki, listings on TradeOgre and Txbit, a bootstrap file for Core, monthly meme challenges, a website redesign, the Garlicblocks explorer, an anime Garlicoin YouTube channel, an esports sponsorship and an ElectrumX upgrade.
  • 2022 Multiwallet listing, a Garlium upgrade, garlicoin.io in more languages, an iOS wallet, Ledger, Trezor and BitBox support, Garlicoin Core 0.18 with rolling checkpoints, CryptocurrencyCheckout ↗ payments for shops, and free stickers.
  • 2023 The long-promised Garlic Bread Dating Simulator gets a demo, plus a merch site, a browser wallet and a bounty program.

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