Our Name Is in Their Blocks. Forever.

Anybody can say they mine. Anybody can put up a dashboard with big numbers and a spinning graphic. I've watched this industry long enough to know that "trust us" is the most expensive phrase in crypto.

So we stopped asking you to trust us. We signed our work.

As of October 3, 2026, every Litecoin block the honest.money pool finds carries a little piece of text baked right into it:

/honest.money/

That's it. Fourteen characters. But those fourteen characters are now written into Litecoin history and Dogecoin history — and they'll be there as long as those chains exist.

Here's the proof — the last few blocks we mined

These are real Litecoin blocks, found by our pool, paid to our pool's address (LdSHVgxVWbP5kGKzmZMm8aEXe2wprwwr32). Look any of them up on any Litecoin block explorer.

And here's the fun part. Look a little further back:

Before October 3, our blocks carried the default tag that came with the mining software — somebody else's name. Between those two blocks, we swapped it for ours. From that point forward, every block we've found says /honest.money/. Every single one.

What does "decoding" it actually look like?

Every block starts with one special transaction — the coinbase (nothing to do with the company). It's the transaction that creates the brand-new coins and pays the miner. It has a small free-text area that the miner gets to fill in. Bitcoin's very first block used that space to quote a newspaper headline about bank bailouts. We use it to sign our name.

Here's the raw text from block 3,191,016, exactly as it sits on the Litecoin blockchain:

03e8b03004a314c66a08810392c11d0600002f686f6e6573742e6d6f6e65792ffabe6d6de313e5c8...

Looks like gibberish. It's not encrypted — it's just written in hexadecimal, which is how computers spell things. Break it into pieces:

Take that bold piece and convert it two letters at a time:

2f  68  6f  6e  65  73  74  2e  6d  6f  6e  65  79  2f
 /   h   o   n   e   s   t   .   m   o   n   e   y   /

There it is. Our name, in the block.

How to check it yourself (no trust required)

You don't need to take my word for any of this. That's the whole point.

The easy way (2 minutes):

1. Go to a Litecoin block explorer like litecoinspace.org.
2. Search for block 3191016 (or any block in the tables above).
3. Click the first transaction in the block — the one that says "Coinbase."
4. Find the field called ScriptSig (some explorers call it "coinbase data"). Many explorers show the readable text right there — you'll see /honest.money/ sitting in the middle.
5. If it only shows the hex, copy it into any free "hex to text" converter online. Look for /honest.money/.
6. While you're there, check where the reward went: LdSHVgxVWbP5kGKzmZMm8aEXe2wprwwr32 — our pool's address.

The nerd way: if you run your own Litecoin node, litecoin-cli getblock <hash> 2 returns the coinbase in full. Decode the coinbase field and you'll find the same fourteen bytes. Your node, your copy of the blockchain, no website in the middle.

We get Dogecoin too — and our name rides along

Our pool merge-mines Dogecoin alongside Litecoin. Same machines, same electricity, same work — two blockchains. And yes, our stamp goes into Dogecoin history too. Here's the proof, from Dogecoin blocks our pool found in the last day (about 10,000 DOGE each):

Look at that right-hand column. Three times in one day, one single piece of work won a Litecoin block and a Dogecoin block at the same moment. Same stamp, same fingerprint, two chains. That's merged mining in a nutshell — you get both.

How does our name get into a Dogecoin block?

This is the neat part. Dogecoin lets miners reuse Litecoin work through something called AuxPoW (auxiliary proof of work). When we submit a Dogecoin block, Dogecoin's rules require us to staple on the proof: the Litecoin-style block header we worked on, plus that block's full coinbase transaction — the one with /honest.money/ written in it. Dogecoin checks that proof and keeps a permanent copy of it inside the Dogecoin block.

That's also what the fabe6d6d marker in the Litecoin coinbase is for. It's the "merged mining" stamp that tells Dogecoin, "this work was for you too." It's how one hash can count for both chains.

Sometimes the work is good enough for Dogecoin but not for Litecoin (Litecoin is the harder target). That's what the "Dogecoin only" rows are: we still win the Dogecoin block, and our stamped coinbase still goes into Dogecoin's permanent record — it just didn't also land a Litecoin block that time.

One honest detail for the nerds: the stamp lives in the proof-of-work section stapled to each Dogecoin block, not in Dogecoin's own reward transaction. Dogecoin's own coinbase for these blocks is just the block number. Explorers that only show the reward transaction won't show our name. Explorers or nodes that show the full block (including the AuxPoW data) will.

How to check a Dogecoin block yourself

1. If you run a Dogecoin node: dogecoin-cli getblock <blockhash> 2 and look in the auxpow section — the tx → vin → coinbase field. Convert that hex to text and you'll see /honest.money/.
2. No node? Download the raw block from a public Dogecoin explorer that offers it (search "Dogecoin raw block" + the block hash), paste it into any hex-to-text converter, and search for /honest.money/. It's right there near the top of the block, inside the stapled Litecoin coinbase.
3. Want the cool one? Compare Dogecoin block 6,404,967 with Litecoin block 3,190,947. The coinbase text in the Dogecoin block's proof is byte-for-byte identical to the Litecoin block's coinbase. Same work. Two blocks. One name.

What this means

1. We really mine — both chains. Not "we have a partner who mines." Not "we resell hashrate." Our pool builds the block, the network accepts it, and the network pays our address. You can't fake a Litecoin block — it takes real machines burning real electricity doing real work. A block with our name on it is a receipt nobody can forge.

2. It's permanent. Once a block is buried under a few more, it's not coming out. No company can delete it. No regulator can redact it. No platform can de-platform it. Those fourteen characters will be sitting in Litecoin's and Dogecoin's history long after everybody reading this is gone.

3. It's our mark on history. Satoshi left a headline in the first Bitcoin block to say why he built it. We're leaving our name in every block we mine to say who is doing the work — and that we're proud to stand behind it.

4. It's proof, not a promise. This is the honest.money way. We don't want you to believe us. We want you to check. Every block, every reward, every address — public, permanent, and verifiable by anyone with an internet connection.

Mining is the foundation. It's how new money gets created honestly — through work, not through a printer in somebody's basement or a bank's backroom. Now, every time we do that work, we sign it.

Go look. Our name's in there.

Wanna see more blocks as they are found? Visit the Pool @ pool.honest.money

— Bobby

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Part of the honest.money ecosystem.

Sources: block data pulled October 7, 2026 from the public Litecoin blockchain (litecoinspace.org), pool payout address LdSHVgxVWbP5kGKzmZMm8aEXe2wprwwr32. Dogecoin block data pulled October 7, 2026 from public Dogecoin explorers (full raw blocks including AuxPoW). Tag change installed October 3, 2026.