Thread by @adamamcbride

Before Dogecoin, its founder - @BillyM2k - had another project.

A coin and its blockchain abandoned since 2014.

Until now 🧵⤵️

Last week, on December 5th, it was Dogecoin's 10th birthday and my friend @capag777 saw Billy's old post from 2013 and reached out to me.

I was excited, and we immediately began hunting for information to see if we could find it.

We landed on the Bitcoin Talk post announcing BELLS on November 28, 2013 - just eight days before Billy and Jackson Palmer launched Dogecoin.

Browsing the forum, we could see very quickly that users abandoned BELLS for DOGE once DOGE took off.

We also found a BELLS community fork in March of 2014, which looks like it died in 2021.

Plus an ETH version.

But the original BELLS blockchain died in late 2014.

I reached out to uber dev @lukewrightmain to see if we could connect some nodes with the original BELLS blockchain, or at least figure out how to start it up again.

Luke's a genius, and about 2 hours later...

..he was able to get the original code working!

BELLS was running for the first time since 2014.

It's been a little bumpy over the last week, but we think that we've got BELLS fully operational 🥳

So here are instructions to start mining your own $BEL tokens.

It's pretty easy.

Total setup time ~10 minutes 👇

🔔Mining rewards are RaNDoM, so you can get lucky and mine a block with up to 10,000 coins🔥🚀

In the past week, we've mined way less than 1% of the supply and the first halving is less than 90 days away 😃

PLUS I'm giving away a ton of coins, so skip to the end to get some.👇

⚠️DISCLAIMER - everything you do from here is AT YOUR OWN RISK. I expect $BEL to be a fun keepsake, but it could die again or be worthless. I've tried to provide accurate information here, but I make mistakes, and things - such as the software for BELLS - I don't control...

..and may have bugs or viruses that could cause damage and loss.

🚨You should NOT run this software on a machine with access to personal information or crypto assets, as it could contain viruses that steal your stuff🚨

I'm using an old laptop, and I suggest you do the same.

Step 1 - Open this link and download the .zip file to your computer.

drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Jd8w…

Step 2 - Open the download and click on the "bells-qt" file.

This will ask you to extract the file - click yes.

This will open a new folder.

Step 3 - In the new folder, click "bells-qt"

Note: Your computer may block the file from running. If this happens, you may need to click "more info" and then click "run anyway"

Step 4 - The BELLS wallet and miner have now loaded, but you will see the "Out of sync" notice.

Let's fix that 👇

Step 5 - You need to get to this location on your PC

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Bells

The "{username}" is your username.

An easy way to get there is to click on "This PC" then "Windows (C)" then the "Users" folder.

Step 6 - You probably won't see the "AppData" folder, so click "View" then click "Show" and then select both "Hidden items" & "File name extensions"

That will expose the "AppData" folder.

Step 7 - Click "AppData"

Step 8 - Click "Roaming"

Step 9 - Click "Bells"

Step 10 - Right-click to bring up the options and select "New" and then click "Text Document"

Step 11 - Enter this name as the title of the text document:

bells.conf

Then hit enter.

Step 11 - Open the "bells.conf" text document

Now paste this text into the document and save it.

dns=1
irc=1
listen=1
dnsseed=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcport=19918
rpcuser=XXXX
rpcpassword=XXXX

⚠️Change the "XXXX" in the text to a user & password that only you know. Do NOT share this with anyone, as it would allow them to take your coins.⚠️

Step 12 - Check your connection to the BELLS network by hovering over the network icon.

If you don't see any active connections, try closing down and restarting the BELLS program.

Step 13 - Let's start mining for some $BEL⛏️

Click on the "Mining" button.

Step 14 - Change the "Threads" to 2 and then click "Start Mining"

You'll see that it says, "Solo mining started"

Congrats! You're on your way to mining $BEL🔥

Step 15 - Click on the Windows search bar and type "Task" then click on the "Task Manager"

Step 16 - Click the "Details" tab, then RIGHT-CLICK on "bells-qt.exe" and select "Set affinity"

Step 17 - Un-check the boxes so that you only have two (2) processors selected. Then click "Ok"

Note: CPU 0 is a processor.

⚠️This is important as mining can potentially burn out your computer.

Now click on the "Transactions" tab and you'll start to see the mined $BEL coins as they come into your wallet.

Note that it takes a while for mined coins to show up as a balance in the "Overview" tab as a certain number of blocks have to clear first.

I hope you're as excited about BELLS as I am👊

🚨Drop your BELLS wallet address in the comments, and I'll send out a bunch 👇

I'd appreciate a Like/Repost the quote below to help spread the word on BELLS 🔔 and maybe it'll be something really cool in another 10 years!

A Discord for BELLS is open🔔
discord.gg/PuSnDNgF