Thirteen years of Catcoin, in the words of the dev who shipped it.

It has been 13 years since I opened announcement 380130. I owe you all an update.

I joined this forum in 2011. My first years in crypto were mining. Started with my CPU, moved to my GPU, skipped FPGAs because they were out of my budget, and when ASICs arrived I bought a dozen Block Erupters and kept at it until it stopped being profitable.

Catcoin came from a joke. After Dogecoin blew up, people on this forum started saying the obvious next step was a cat version of an altcoin. Then maybe a mouse one. I had already built a couple of small altcoins before, so I figured I would do it. The name was not a debate, it was obvious. I was 22 years old.

I posted the pre-launch thread on December 21, 2013. I originally planned to ship it as SHA-256. A few people in the thread talked me into Scrypt. Two days of testing later, it launched on December 23, 2013. My family spent that Christmas annoyed that I was physically at the table and mentally in a terminal.

Then someone broke into my house.

The laptop went with them. With the laptop went my wallet.dat and everything I had in progress. All the CAT I held was from community donations and it was on that machine. None of it was backed up anywhere I could reach. It was gone.

I did not own any mining gear of my own. Catcoin had always been volunteer work, built for the community, funded by donations. So the day someone kicked in my door it ended overnight. I put my head down on my day job, picked up freelance work, and rebuilt financially. That was it.

The years that followed I worked, I learned, I grew up. I watched Bitcoin go up. I checked the old thread every few months and saw the project pass from hand to hand because there was no clear leader. Other people kept the chain producing blocks, which is more than most coins that age ever get, but it was no longer mine to touch.

I tried to come back once, in 2015 or 2016. That same week my Bitcointalk account got hacked. I took it as a sign and walked away from crypto for real.

Then February 2026 happened.

I woke up one morning, checked Twitter, and my follower count had gone up by hundreds overnight. I posted asking what was going on. The replies told me someone had launched a token using my identity on Solana. There were fees to claim. There was free money. I was famous again.

I accepted. Three vertigo days followed. Money moving, messages pouring in, people telling me I was killing the token by not doing anything, while I had no idea what "doing something" even meant. I started reading Solana docs, smart contract guides, memetoken culture, OG dev dynamics. By the time I actually understood what was happening, the token had vanished and the people who had launched it had vanished with it. That was my first lesson in how Solana moves.

A week or two later the people who had maintained the original Catcoin L1 for all these years reached out. They were upset that I was being associated with the name. We talked. We agreed to launch a Solana token together. We even signed a paper.

But their plan was narrow. The fees from the Solana token would buy L1 CAT, which they would then pay themselves for the years of upkeep. No buybacks on Solana. No community plan on Solana. No product on Solana. Just a pipe into the L1. I understood their position but could not sign my name to it. I stepped out and the deal died.

The weeks after that were full of offers. Launch another token, easy money, join the pod, we all make money. I said no to all of them because I did not want my name attached to another rug.

One proposal was different. More thought, more honesty, ideas I had not seen elsewhere. I said yes. Around the same time, a recovery request I had filed on my old Bitcointalk account, the one that had been hacked in 2015, finally came through. The account I am posting this from and the account that posted 380130 in 2013 are the same account.

So here is what this actually is.

This is not the 2013 L1 continued. The L1 is still running, in other hands, doing what it does. On Solana it is a fresh thing by the same person. A solo dev joining with a community to grow an idea. I am writing code again. I built lastcat.gg myself, from scratch, with a little help from an AI that was very patient with me. Every swap feeds the cat fund. There are things coming that will only work with $CATCOIN and only with $CATCOIN.

I am not here for a quick buck. I never was.

If you read this far, thank you.

I am not asking anyone to believe anything I say. I am asking you to verify. The signature on my 2013 announcement still matches the wallet that signs thecatcoinproject.org. And this post is coming from the account that posted 380130 thirteen years ago. Both are checkable in a couple of clicks.

Then decide for yourself.