Hearth is a proof-of-work currency you mine on the computer you already own — no farms, no ASICs, no pools. It's fast, nearly free to send, and designed to circulate like cash, not sit in a vault like gold.
Bitcoin became a farm. Everything else became a casino. Hearth fixes the specific things that pushed ordinary people out of their own money.
A RandomX-class, memory-hard puzzle plus a non-outsourceable signature means a warehouse of ASICs earns no more per dollar than your laptop — and pools can't form.
Disinflationary emission into a perpetual tail, offset by a fee burn. Net inflation trends toward zero, so EMBER is stable money — not a hoarded collectible.
15-second blocks, tiny predictable fees, and instant retail payments over Tab channels. Buy a coffee without waiting or overpaying.
Stealth addresses by default. Your balance is yours; your rent isn't the cashier's business.
The tail emission funds security forever, so Hearth doesn't inherit Bitcoin's "what happens when rewards end?" problem.
10% of every block funds an on-chain treasury governed by the community. Development without VCs owning your money.
Install the Hearth app and press Start your hearth. It quietly uses spare CPU cycles — polite mining that respects your battery, heat, and whatever else you're doing. The longer your fire burns, the more EMBER lands in your wallet.