SHIT

We all love to trade shitcoins, but did you know one called SHIT was created 13 years ago, in 2013? It’s on Bitcointalk, and it even has its own GitHub.

100,000,000,000,000
Maximum supply

Coin specifications

NameShitCoin (SHIT / SHT)
Maximum supply100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000)
PremineNone
InstamineNone
Block time60 seconds
Difficulty retargetEvery 4 hours
Starting block reward500,000,000 coins
HalvingEvery 2,000 blocks (about every 1.2 days)
Minimum block reward1,000,000 coins
Proof of stake0.0001% stake after 69 days
RPC / P2P ports8505 / 8506

About

ShitCoin was announced on 7 October 2013 on the Bitcoin Forum as a joke coin that admits up front what it is. It is meant as a yardstick: if the worst coin on the planet can match many “real” ones, those coins are no better.

Screenshot of the original 7 October 2013 Bitcointalk announcement for Shitcoin
The original announcement on Bitcointalk, posted 7 October 2013.

Read the original announcement thread