Why did BTCV block times change after launch?

New chains routinely overshoot their launch hashrate; when miners leave, the difficulty retarget catches up over subsequent epochs. It self-corrects — what matters long-term is the steady-state community, not week-one numbers.

Is BTCV the same as BTC?

No — it's an independent SHA-256d chain with its own genesis, community and wallet (BitcoinValue Core). It uses standard Bitcoin-style addresses, which is why the connection setup looks familiar.

BitcoinValue (BTCV): mining through the launch turbulence

MineCraft Pool · 2026-09-17

TL;DR — Point your SHA-256d miner at stratum+tcp://btcv.minecraftpool.com:7805 and use your BTCV wallet address as the username. Pool fee 1% until the payout buffer is funded, minimum payout 200 BTCV, SOLO scheme — the whole block reward goes to whoever finds the block.

Connect your miner, use your wallet address as the username, and you're mining. On this pool there is no registration, no account and no email — the wallet address is the account.

stratum+tcp://btcv.minecraftpool.com:7805
username: YOUR_BTCV_WALLET_ADDRESS.worker1
password: x

Stratum ports

URL	For hardware
`stratum+tcp://btcv.minecraftpool.com:7805`	small ASICs, varDiff (Bitaxe-class)
`stratum+tcp://btcv.minecraftpool.com:7806`	mid-range 10–100 TH/s
`stratum+tcp://btcv.minecraftpool.com:7807`	large farms >100 TH/s

The first port uses variable difficulty tuned for small devices (Bitaxe-class home ASICs, ~1 TH/s): difficulty starts low and retargets every 30 seconds. The other ports are for mid-range (10–100 TH/s) and large (>100 TH/s) machines and run at fixed difficulty — small miners there just waste work.

About BitcoinValue (BTCV)

BitcoinValue is a Bitcoin-family chain built on modern Bitcoin Core code (v30 lineage) with a community that runs its own infrastructure — explorer, nodes, releases. We connected it on September 17, 2026, five days after OrdexCoin, and its early network went through the usual new-chain lifecycle: a launch hashrate spike, a correction, and settling into organic mining levels by October.

Pool parameters

Pool fee: 1% until the payout buffer is funded
Minimum payout: 200 BTCV
Algorithm: SHA-256d
Payout scheme: SOLO — the full block reward goes to the miner who found the block
Block explorer: https://explorer.btcv.org/ (or the project's official explorer)
Wallet: BitcoinValue Core v1.0.2 from the BitcoinValueProject GitHub

Practical notes

BTCV teaches the classic small-chain lesson: launch-week network hashrate can be ten times the steady-state. If you sized your expectations during a spike, you were finding blocks rarely; after the correction, the same hardware owns a bigger slice. Check the network share trend, not a single day's number. The 1% fee applies until the payout buffer is funded, then returns to 0%.

FAQ

Why did BTCV block times change after launch?: New chains routinely overshoot their launch hashrate; when miners leave, the difficulty retarget catches up over subsequent epochs. It self-corrects — what matters long-term is the steady-state community, not week-one numbers.
Is BTCV the same as BTC?: No — it's an independent SHA-256d chain with its own genesis, community and wallet (BitcoinValue Core). It uses standard Bitcoin-style addresses, which is why the connection setup looks familiar.