Connect to Drynet 4

Fork of mainnet with PoW difficulty reset. The native currency is eCash (ECX). It runs real BIP300/301 rules, and PoW difficulty is set very low, so it is possible to mine this chain at home.

Network endpoints

drynet4.drivechain.dev:8533

A full Drynet 4 node: the peer you sync from.

Run a node

Download a prebuilt Drynet 4 node, or build it from ecash-com/bitcoin (drynet4 branch). Then connect to the network:

macOS (Apple Silicon)macOS (Intel)Linux (x86_64)Windows (x86_64)

bitcoind -datadir=./drynet4 -addnode=drynet4.drivechain.dev:8533

⚠️ Always pass -datadir: because the fork identifies as main, running without it would write into a real ~/.bitcoin directory.

A full sync downloads and validates all of mainnet history up to the fork (~850 GB, several hours).

Binaries for everything else (BitWindow, sidechains, the BIP300/301 enforcer) are at releases.drivechain.info.

Mining

Drynet 4 restarted difficulty at 1 from the fork block, so blocks are CPU-mineable: point any getblocktemplate miner at your own node with a payout address of yours.

stratum+tcp://pool.drynet4.drivechain.dev:3333

Or point a stratum miner at the public pool (pool.drynet4.drivechain.dev).