LIVE · 10K NEW USERS / HOUR
An homage to Hal Finney,
going viral.
RPOW2 is reusable proof-of-work, reborn. Built in a week. From zero to 140,000 users in five days — and adding 10,000 more, every hour.
140,000
Users · 5 Days
10,000
New / Hour
5
Days Live
3
Game Modes
Adoption curve
Five days. 140,000 users.
RPOW2 went live Thursday at 3:20 PM. First miners arrived inside forty minutes. By Sunday the servers were buckling. By Tuesday morning we crossed one hundred forty thousand — and the curve hasn't started bending.
Cumulative users · May 7 → May 12
Source: rpow2.com internal · refreshed live
Total usersDaily adds
Launch log
From 10:38 AM Thursday
to 140,000 users.
A complete record of the five days that built RPOW2 — in reverse chronological order. Newest first.
Tue May 12 · Live
★ 140,000 USERS — 5 DAYSMilestone
Five days after launch, RPOW2 crosses 140,000 users. Growing at 10,000 per hour.
Mon May 11
RPOW Gladiator launchesGame mode
1-on-1 head-to-head game mode goes live at gladiator.rpow2.com.
Mon May 11
RPOW Trivia launchesGame mode
Trivia game mode goes live alongside Gladiator.
Mon May 11
90K users
Scaling edge — servers handling 10K new users per hour.
Sun May 10
50K users — scaling pain, then relief
Hitting 50,000 users triggers a wave of scaling issues. Mitigated with bigger servers and Cloudflare in front.
Sun May 10
Community games arriveCommunity
Adam McBride ships RPOWSwap. His friend ships RPOWMarket. Thousands of RPOW trades happen OTC.
Sat May 9
Solana wrapping added
RPOW can now be wrapped to SRPOW on Solana for use in the wider ecosystem.
Fri May 8
Longshot coinflip game addedGame mode
The first add-on game ships — a coinflip you fund with RPOW.
Thu May 7 · 05:56 PM
Prominent Bitcoiners start mining
A handful of well-known Bitcoiners pick up RPOW and start mining for fun.
Thu May 7 · 03:56 PM
First miners arrive
Within forty minutes of going live, real people are mining RPOW.
Thu May 7 · 03:20 PM
RPOW2.com is liveLaunch
After a lunch break, a Claude coding session, and DNS settings landing, rpow2.com goes live.
Thu May 7 · 10:38 AM
It begins
DotKrueger takes a break from the long-term AI project he is working on to build RPOW — an homage to Hal Finney.
The ecosystem
Games, swaps, markets —
built in days, not quarters.
The first add-on game shipped Friday. By Sunday, community devs were shipping their own. The RPOW ecosystem is composing itself in real time.
First-party · Fri May 8
Longshot
The first add-on game. A coinflip you fund with RPOW. Long odds, real payouts, instant settlement.
First-party · Mon May 11
Gladiator
1-on-1 head-to-head proof-of-work. Two miners enter, one walks out with the pot.
First-party · Mon May 11
Trivia
Trivia, stake your RPOW. Know the answer, take the pot. Launched alongside Gladiator.
→ rpow2.com/trivia
Community · Adam McBride
RPOWSwap
Peer-to-peer RPOW swaps. Built by the community in days. Thousands of trades already cleared.
→ Built by Adam McBride
Community
RPOWMarket
An OTC marketplace for RPOW. Shipped by a friend of Adam's. Thousands of OTC trades and counting.
→ Community-built
Bridge · Sat May 9
SRPOW on Solana
Wrap RPOW to SRPOW and take it into the wider Solana ecosystem. Liquidity, anywhere.
→ Solana-wrapped RPOW
Mine the next block.
RPOW2 is live now. Ten thousand new users joined in the last hour. Be part of the curve.