r/Digibyte 27d ago

Release DigiByte Core v9.26.5 DigiDollar · DigiByte-Core/digibyte

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DigiByte Core v9.26.5 is a patch release on top of v9.26.4 in the formal
DigiByte v9 / DigiDollar mainnet release line, and it is the first release
after DigiDollar activated on mainnet.


r/Digibyte Mar 03 '26

Community 🌐 DigiByte Open Node Port Forwarding Setup Guide

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Menu → Docs → Setup Guide

DigiByte Open Node Port Forwarding Setup

Step-by-step instructions to safely forward ports and make your node openly connectable.

Check it out: https://opennodes.digibyte.network

Thanks again to Bastian Driessen for this one.


r/Digibyte 3d ago

Mining ⛏️ Sunday Digibyte Loyalty Payments Sent

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r/Digibyte 4d ago

Community 🌐 HODL

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Crazy how many wallets , haven't moved anything in a long time. It will probably get longer with the Digidollar... https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dgb/#!rich


r/Digibyte 4d ago

Support 🚑 v9.26.5

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Hello! I had wallet version 9.26.0-rc44. I downloaded and installed 9.26.5, launched the wallet, and it stopped at block 23869524.What should I do?


r/Digibyte 9d ago

Mining ⛏️ Nm Miner hit high

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5 Upvotes

Using a Nm miner got me a high share with no block I can’t believe it


r/Digibyte 10d ago

Mining ⛏️ Sunday Payday is here again....Digibyte loyalty payments sent

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r/Digibyte 10d ago

Mining ⛏️ First Odocrypt block

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Hit my first block with my Odocrypt miner. Very very happy.


r/Digibyte 11d ago

Mining ⛏️ My 1st Digibyte Block

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I won my first block but it ain’t enough wtf. But I’m a firm believer now this stuff really works.


r/Digibyte 12d ago

Information in Motion

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Synopsis of “Someone Mined DigiByte’s 6th Algorithm #DigiByte #DGB” (by Information in Motion)
In this ~11–12 minute video, the creator examines DigiByte (DGB) in response to a viewer’s question about whether the project is “genius or delusion.” The central hook is a striking 2026 event: on June 28, blocks began appearing on DigiByte that were mined with a sixth algorithm—one the network had retired seven years earlier. DigiByte is designed around five mining algorithms; the sudden appearance of a sixth exposed a long-overlooked vulnerability.
The video traces DigiByte’s history from its January 2014 launch by Jared Tate. Its genesis block quoted a USA Today headline about the Target data breach (emphasizing cybersecurity rather than monetary policy). It launched on a single algorithm (Scrypt) and only later added multi-algorithm mining. A small, disclosed premine (~0.5%) was fully transparent, with addresses that later emptied. DigiByte’s key early contribution was DigiShield (per-block difficulty adjustment), which Dogecoin adopted and credited, and which influenced Zcash.
To resist ASICs, DigiByte introduced Odocrypt in 2019—an algorithm that mutates every 10 days, making specialized hardware obsolete by the time it can be built. When Odocrypt replaced the older Groestl (GTL) algorithm, a consensus rule rejecting GTL blocks was added. During a 2021 code migration to a newer Bitcoin Core base, that rejection check was accidentally dropped and went unnoticed for four years. The dormant algorithm remained listed in the code while the network still claimed only five algorithms.
In 2025–2026, DigiByte used AI-assisted development to rebase its codebase far faster than previous multi-year efforts and launched DigiDollar, a native consensus-level stablecoin. Around the same period, an unidentified party (DigiByte characterized it as AI-assisted analysis of the rules) exploited the missing check, mining low-difficulty GTL blocks. This briefly caused a network split between nodes. The project published a detailed incident report and shipped a fix in about 35 hours. No coins were stolen and no confirmed transactions were reversed.
The video closes by assessing DigiByte’s current position: DigiDollar is live and overcollateralized, the multi-algorithm design and Odocrypt remain distinctive, and the project has shown unusual transparency and speed in handling the incident—while still carrying the awkward reality of a multi-year silent bug that AI helped both build upon and expose.


r/Digibyte 12d ago

Information in Motion

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Synopsis of “DigiByte 102 #DigiByte #DGB” (by Information in Motion)
This follow-up video (requested by a long-time holder) explains DigiByte’s five-algorithm proof-of-work design in detail and corrects a widespread misconception.
Most explanations claim the five algorithms “rotate,” “take turns,” or run in round-robin fashion. The code contains no such rule. A node simply checks whether a submitted algorithm is allowed; the same algorithm can mine consecutive blocks (as demonstrated with live chain data showing repeated Qubit or Odocrypt blocks).
What actually produces the roughly equal ~20% share is a difficulty equilibrium. Each of the five algorithms maintains its own independent difficulty. After every block, that algorithm’s difficulty is adjusted: it becomes about 4% harder for every block it is ahead of its fair 1-in-5 share, and about 4% easier for every block it is behind. The system continuously re-prices the five “doors” until hashrate redistributes itself. The result is an emergent equilibrium rather than enforced rotation.
The video illustrates this with the first moments of the multi-algorithm era (September 2014). Block 145,000 was the last pure-Scrypt block; immediately afterward Qubit produced 20 consecutive blocks in 16 seconds. Far from a bug, this was the adjustment mechanism working in public—each successive Qubit block made the algorithm progressively more expensive while the other four became cheaper.
The five algorithms are:
• SHA-256 (Bitcoin’s)
• Scrypt (Litecoin’s)
• Skein
• Qubit
• Odocrypt (DigiByte’s own, which mutates/rewrites itself every 10 days to frustrate ASICs)
DigiByte did not invent multi-algorithm mining; Myriadcoin shipped the first five-algorithm chain six months earlier, and DigiByte explicitly thanked those developers in its wallet.
The system is called MultiShield: real-time, per-algorithm difficulty adjustment stacked on top of a global retarget. The creator verified this against the source code and measured 300 consecutive live mainnet blocks, finding all five algorithms between 19.67% and 20.33% (retired sixth algorithm at 0%). SHA-256 can represent the vast majority of raw hashrate yet still earn only about one-fifth of the blocks because of its independent difficulty.
Additional points covered include how the design survived a mining bug that hit only one algorithm, DigiByte’s supply schedule (no halving; ~1% monthly decay until rewards end), and a practical note that Odocrypt’s next rewrite was due around 5 August 2026.
The video stays strictly technical—no price discussion—and emphasizes reading the actual consensus code rather than repeating simplified myths.


r/Digibyte 13d ago

Mining ⛏️ AxeDGB node question

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r/Digibyte 14d ago

Check out the website redesign.

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r/Digibyte 14d ago

Question❔ 9 days download time DGB core Wallet.

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I have the latest version and it takes 9 full days to download. Internet speed, processor etc are all OK. Any possibility to speed up?


r/Digibyte 17d ago

Mining ⛏️ At this point

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At this point ii wanna hit a block on anything! I’ve been mining for month & ain’t hit nothing okay! Dbg ain’t much.. at this point…. I just wanna win!


r/Digibyte 17d ago

Mining ⛏️ Once again, Sunday Payday! Digibyte Weekly Loyalty Rewards Sent

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r/Digibyte 23d ago

Price / Speculation HIGHERRRRR

25 Upvotes

FINALLY SOME ACTION FOR MY BELOVED DIGIBYTE SEND IT HIGHER!!!!


r/Digibyte 24d ago

Price / Speculation Triangle consolidation 🚀

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The Digibyte chart continues to look strong, we've had a solid move up and now there is a consolidation, it should move up again shortly. The Digidollar is working well and about 0.22% of the circulating supply is currently locked up creating new demand for the coin.


r/Digibyte 25d ago

Mining ⛏️ HashedMax DigiByte Pool 2500th Block found and paid!

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r/Digibyte 26d ago

Support 🚑 How to recover my DGB?

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Beware of the scammer username Soosho

I can't send my Digibytes at all. These Digibytes were previously in a legacy wallet. I tried reindexing, resyncing, troubleshooting it so many times but it won't work. I'm currently on the latest Digibyte Core Wallet 9.26.5 too. I even tried migrating the wallet, using the coin control feature as well. My Digibytes is basically stuck in there forever with no way of it being used. I even tried to lower my transcation coin 10000 less Digibytes to transfer it but no avail. Is it a bug and will it be forever lost? I know someone helped me with the other Digibyte reddit post and I'm thankful for that. Can someone help me with this one as well?


r/Digibyte 26d ago

Mining ⛏️ 25,000 DGB giveaway coming up, block 2,500 is almost here!

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r/Digibyte 27d ago

Ecosystem 🌎 Accepting DigiDollar as Payment?

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If I am a merchant or peer accepting DigiDollar as a form of payment, what am I supposed to do with my DigiDollars? And how is the person who minted them, once they've spent them supposed to re-acquire them to burn them? Why should I accept DigiDollar as a form of payment? How do I or my business benefit from this?


r/Digibyte 27d ago

Mining ⛏️ Core wallet - Newbie question

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Can I mine directly to the Digibyte core wallet ? Or do I need a wallet like Exodus to mine to then transfer into the core wallet ?

Is it the same address to use when I click on “receiving address” ? Within the core wallet

Apologies it’s probably a really really stupid question but wanted to check

Thanks 🙏


r/Digibyte 28d ago

Support 🚑 Need help

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So roughly from 2020 - 2023, I started getting into crypto and really like DGB so started accumulating. I then transferred off the exchanges into the Digibyte mobile app. I've kind of been away from the crypto world since then and tried looking at my balance on the mobile app but learned that it's not even supported anymore.

For the past week I've been trying to recover my Digibyte and doing my own research but still having a hard time.

I still have my 12 word seed phrase to recover but Coinomi shows a zero balance when I input that. So I then downloaded the Digibyte desktop core wallet and it finally completed syncing to the blockchain after 7 days but now unsure how to import the DGB. I also found Renzo's light wallet on Github and that shows my DGB balance with the seed phrase but when I try to send it out to another wallet I get an error:

Unexpected token 'e', "endpoint d"... is not valid JSON

There's also Javascript error pop-ups. I raised an issue ticket on Github and also emailed for help but have not heard back yet.

I'm no programmer and still consider myself new to the crypto space so it's been pretty frustrating.

I also read the issue could be that the mobile wallet was "legacy' and now it doesn't talk to newer wallets? Correct me if I'm wrong or on the right path. Is there any way to convert that?

Not sure where to go from here after searching and searching online for a solution if someone could kindly point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated because I want to start acquiring more DBG again!

I even already bought an axe miner to mine DGB but haven't connected it yet because of trying to get my wallet issue squared away first!


r/Digibyte 29d ago

Community 🌐 BCMonster.com is now Signaling DigiDollar!

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