**Response to @evoskuil:**

To do this ne needed software. He started libbitcoin, and found phantomcircuit online to help out with the code. Phantomcircuit ended up owning 5% of the network hashrate, I visited his mine in TX years ago with Peter Todd. Britcoin failed for a number of reasons...

https://nitter.moomoo.me/evoskuil/status/1644521742252269570#m