Basics

The supply starts at 50 per block, halving every 4 years.

Giving us about 21 Million total capacity.

<==== Proof of Work ====

We use a custom POW based on IO. See Technical-Design

snow:address and address are both valid formats.

Node

==== Do I have to run a node? ====
It's highly suggested and relatively easy. Everything relies on them, although the clients and miners are light and can connect to any node.
==== RocksDB Error ====
https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/issues/32 - Upgrade to a recent release.
==== Block too far into the Future ====
Make sure your clock is correct.

==== Snowfield? ====
- Miners are required to have the latest or greater snowfield.
- Determine the current activated_field
- It is suggested you download/torrent the current field
- You may slowly generate it by setting autosnow=true in your miner.conf
- the path looks like snowblossom_home/snow/snowblossom.#/*
==== Can I mine in RAM? ====
- You must have enough ram for the current field + overhead.
- Windows likely requires memfield=True
- Linux kernel typically automatically loads files into ram
==== Directory Not Present ====
Make sure the you have the snowfield in place.
==== GPU mining possible? ====
Our POW is intended to make this infeasible.
==== When will the mining field change? ====
- The snowfield increases each time the average difficulty doubles.
- The difficulty may drop, but the activated snowfield is permanent.
- Here, you may review the code that determines the exact difficulties for each activation