(BOB) is the Official CryptoCurrency of The Church of the SubGenius — the ONLY currency accepted on the Pleasure Saucers, and the only ledger "Bob" Himself would dignify by salesmanship.
Eternal Salvation or Triple Your Money Back.
https://dobbscoin.info · https://subgenius.finance — where Sub-Culture becomes Capital.
Maybe your income just suddenly popped. Maybe you've inherited a fortune, birthed quintuplets, been recently divorced, or you simply woke up in a cold sweat at 3am knowing — knowing — that the Elder Bankers of the Universe are slowly draining your essential fluids through the bank app on your phone.
Whatever your problem is, (BOB) can help you.
The Conspiracy wants you mediocre, taxable, and on autopay. (BOB) wants you free. Choose.
| Activation | Block | ETA | Old node fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| LWMA-3 + emergency-diff + 100-block finality | 1,888,808 → 1,888,888 | ~2026-07-16 | Forked off |
AuxPoW merge-mining (chain ID 0x00B0) |
2,000,000 | ~2026-12-17 | Forked off |
Run v0.13.0. Anything older gets left behind on a dead chain. The Pinkboys can keep it.
- What is (BOB)?
- Quick start
- Building from source
- Wallet builds — Berkeley DB 4.8
- Network parameters
- Ecosystem
- Contributing
- Testing
- License
(BOB) is an excremental digital currency that sends instant Slack to anyone, anywhere. No central authority. No board of directors. No quarterly earnings call. Just a peer-to-peer network of weirdos, mystics, miners, and tipbot enjoyers issuing Slack collectively, on a 2-minute heartbeat, since January 2014.
It is scrypt under the hood, flat 1.5 (BOB) per block forever, and NOT for Sale. You earn it, mine it, or get tipped it. You do not buy it. (NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE.)
Pre-built binaries for Linux (daemon, Qt5, AppImage) and Windows 64-bit live on the releases page:
→ https://github.com/SubGeniusFinance/dobbscoin-source/releases
git clone https://github.com/SubGeniusFinance/dobbscoin-source.git
cd dobbscoin-source
./contrib/install-db4.sh # builds BDB 4.8 into $HOME/db4 (no root)
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-bdb=$HOME/db4
make -j$(nproc)
./src/dobbscoind --version # should say 0.13.0That's it. You now have a working (BOB) node and wallet. Praise "Bob".
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 and recent Debian. Install build deps:
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libevent-dev \
libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev-tools \
libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-devThen run the Quick start block above.
For Windows, macOS, and cross-compile, see doc/build-*.md.
If configure says:
Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8, required for portable wallets
…this is not a bug. (BOB) inherits the Bitcoin Core 0.10 wallet format, which requires Berkeley DB 4.8.30 for wallet.dat portability. Modern distros ship 5.x / 6.x, which cannot open the legacy format. Every serious Bitcoin-family fork still does this.
The helper script installs a local copy into $HOME/db4 — no root, no system-library tampering:
./contrib/install-db4.sh
./configure --with-bdb=$HOME/db4
make -j$(nproc)Skip BDB only if you are running a node-only install with no wallet. If you need to hold or move (BOB), you need 4.8. End of debate.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Proof of work | scrypt |
| Block target | 2 minutes (since block 68425) |
| Difficulty algorithm | DigiShield V4 → LWMA-3 at block 1,888,808 → emergency-diff at 1,888,888 |
| Max reorg depth | none → 100 blocks at activation |
| Merge mining | AuxPoW, chain ID 0x00B0, at block 2,000,000 |
| Subsidy | 1.5 (BOB) per block, forever (since block 951753) |
| Halvings | Capped at block 951752 — chain is mildly inflationary by design |
| Tx version | v1 only |
| Genesis | January 2014 (Bitcoin Core 0.10-era fork) |
There is no 21M supply cap. That was 2014 marketing. The
MAX_MONEYsanity ceiling sits at 10B (BOB) — at the current emission rate, ~25,000 years away. The chain is intentionally, gently inflationary. Slack is not scarce.
| Block explorer | https://explorer.dobbscoin.info |
| Mining pool | https://pool.dobbscoin.info |
| Faucet | https://faucet.dobbscoin.info |
| Rich list | https://explorer.dobbscoin.info/richlist |
| "Bob" Bank — custodial web wallet | https://subgenius.finance/bobbank |
| Android APK | https://subgenius.vip/dobbscoin.apk |
| Bridge → wBOB on Gnosis | https://bridge.subgenius.finance |
| wBOB trading (primary, Oku) | oku.trade — wBOB pair |
| Forum | https://subgenius.finance/smf/ |
(BOB) is NOT for Sale. Never has been, never will be. You acquire it, you earn it, you mine it, you get tipped it. The Conspiracy can keep its order book.
This is an open project. Patches welcome.
- Trivial / uncontroversial — open a PR, it gets pulled.
- Anything that touches consensus, the wallet, or user-facing behavior — open a thread on the forum first. Hard forks are not surprise parties.
- Match the style in
doc/coding.md. Don't reformat the world.
master is built and tested but not guaranteed stable. Tags are the stable line — currently v0.13.0.
Build and run the unit tests:
make checkEvery PR is built via GitHub Actions — see .github/workflows/release.yml.
Large changes need a test plan and need to be tested by someone other than the author. "It works on my machine" is how chains die.
MIT. See COPYING or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Praise "Bob". GET SLACK. The Devival is forever.