Discrete

Big servers have an advantage in raw attempts. We are not going to pretend otherwise. DiscretePower is designed to add friction to outsourced mining, not to make a laptop equal to a 64-core server. The goal is honest solo PoW, not fake egalitarianism.

Privacy claims should be precise. Discrete currently hides ownership of unspent outputs behind post-quantum stealth delivery, but amounts and the spent-output graph are transparent. Confidential amounts are a later phase. No anonymity theater.

Post-quantum does not mean inventing exotic cryptography. Discrete uses standardized ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA-65 for wallet ownership, then builds the transaction model around them. Conservative primitives. New system design.

DiscretePower binds every mining candidate to the miner’s ML-DSA identity and feeds the signature through the memory-hard work. The goal is not magical “pool-proof” mining. It is to make remote delegation harder and keep solo mining first-class. Solo mining can be tough, though - it rewards patience as much as raw hashrate.

Discrete mainnet has been live for a month. Apart from the first night hiccup the network has remained stable, blocks keep coming, difficulty keeps adapting, and real solo miners have been putting DiscretePower through its first month in the wild. Still early. Still experimental. Still running.

Most post-quantum plans start with migration: move old coins before quantum hardware becomes practical. $Discrete asks a simpler question: What if the chain never creates quantum-vulnerable ownership in the first place?

WHAT DISCRETE ACTUALLY IS

We've been quiet for a little while, but Discrete hasn't. The mainnet keeps running, mining has had time to settle in, and nearly a month of real-world operation is now behind us. Several updates coming soon $XDS

Hashrate: 1.38 MH/s. Apparently miners missed good old days of true old-school coins ⛏️

Why doesn't Discrete aim for full untraceability? Because it's a tradeoff. We're planning to hide transaction amounts, not the entire transaction graph. That keeps transfers confidential while preserving a simpler, more efficient, and more auditable protocol. Practical post-quantum digital cash over maximum complexity. Discretion.

Discrete uses DiscretePower-2: a CPU-oriented, memory-hard PoW that mixes each miner’s full post-quantum signature directly into the hashing process. Identity-bound. Delegation-hostile. Solo by design.

Discrete mainnet launches at 00:00 UTC on July 27, 2026.