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Garlicoin's history

From a garlic bread joke on Reddit at Christmas 2017 to a coin that's still baking a block every 40 seconds. Dates marked ⛓ on the chain come straight from the blockchain; the rest are from the official roadmap ↗.

2017

  1. The idea is born. "On December 25, 2017, Reddit user u/DigitalizedOrange presented his dream to the newly-found Garlicoin community." A cryptocurrency for garlic bread lovers, made by r/garlicoin.

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, which later makes the cheap grlc1 addresses possible. See it ↗
  4. Goodbye scrypt, hello Allium. After block 58,670 mining moves to the Allium algorithm, so ordinary graphics cards and CPUs can keep mining instead of specialized machines. How to mine today
  5. An AMD miner, the Garlium light wallet and the Garlicoin Insight explorer are released.
  6. First halving at block 690,000: each block now pays 25 GRLC instead of 50.

2019

  1. GRLC.eu statistics, the FreshGRLC explorer and rich list, a FreiExchange listing (still where GRLC trades today: see the market) and a Discord tipbot.
  2. Second halving at block 1,380,000: 12.5 GRLC per block.

2020

  1. Listings on Polarity Exchange and Crex24, the Reddit tipbot, a second airdrop and GRLC.eu payments.
  2. Third halving at block 2,070,000: 6.25 GRLC per block.

2021

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

2022

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

2023

  1. The long-promised Garlic Bread Dating Simulator gets a demo, plus a merch site, a browser wallet and a bounty program.
  2. 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: Block Lotto picks a winner from a block hash every day, and there are browser games, garlic names, the wall, a payment screen for stalls, and a browser wallet.
  3. Garlicoin Core 0.18.3 and 0.18.4, the first maintenance releases since 2022, from the new official GitHub organization ↗: updated libraries, sharper text on high-DPI screens, and the classic wallet look, fully compatible with existing wallets and the network.
  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: 0.048828125 GRLC per block. Countdown
  2. The full Garlic Bread Dating Simulator, according to the roadmap. We'll wait.

Something missing?

Garlicoin is a community project, and a lot of its story lives in old Reddit threads and Discord chats. If you remember a moment that belongs here, a first tip, a meme, a launch, share it in the Garlicoin Discord.