End goal for Nerva is being self-sustained.

End Goal for Nerva

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The goal of developing cryptocurrency was to create a currency that can be used by anyone, anywhere and anytime without borders. Such cryptocurrency needs to be free from censorship. It cannot be controlled by any government, company, individual or developer. It needs to be self sustained so it can keep working even if everything build around it shuts down. This includes websites, developers, seed nodes or social media accounts.


Nerva core software has been running, mining blocks and processing transactions without any code changes for over 2 years now. Are there some issues? Sure. Things can be improved and we’ll work on making the software work better.


Nerva has good foundation. It’s set up to be censorship resistant by requiring each miner to keep a copy of the blockchain so traditional mining pools where you just start mining software and submit shares to the pool is not possible. This also greatly improves decentralization because every miner is a full node.

Nerva is also in tail emission so majority of the supply has already been distributed to miners over the years and now each block has 0.3 XNV reward. Currently it means 0.833% annual inflation. This percentage will slowly go down with time. This still gives miners incentive to mine and process transactions and miners are willing to mine as can be seen with recent hash rate increase.


Where do we go from here? We will work on making Nerva software more self sustained. The goal is to have a blockchain that only needs a community of people who are willing to use it, mine it and support it with their CPUs, a blockchain that cannot be shut down or taken offline by anybody. That’s the end goal. How close can we get to that?

Nerva Wallet and Miner, New vs Old

NervaOne Desktop

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Over the last several months, new open-source, non-custodial, multi-coin GUI has been developed from scratch by Nerva team. It’s called NervaOne Desktop and it replaces Nerva’s old GUI wallet and miner.

Not only is NervaOne wallet and miner for Nerva, but it currently also supports 3 other cryptocurrencies: $XMR $WOW and $DASH. More crypto projects can be added in the future, if there is interest.

NervaOne Desktop is a non-custodial solution so it uses client tools (or daemon) that runs on your own computer. This way, you do not need to trust anybody else to use wallet functionality.

In the next few weeks, work on phase 2 will begin. We will build on top of NervaOne Desktop and create NervaOne Mobile that will provide crypto wallet functionality on mobile devices. NervaOne Mobile will use your own NervaOne Desktop as an interface to provide wallet functionality. This way, not only are you not trusting any 3rd party, NervaOne Mobile does not need to store any sensitive info on your mobile device.

If you care about your crypto privacy and want to support crypto projects by running your own node, helping to decentralize them, it does not get any better than NervaOne!

NervaOne Desktop can be downloaded from GitHub:

https://github.com/nerva-project/NervaOneWalletMiner

Nerva premine block

Nerva Blockchain Is 6 Years Old!

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Today on May 1st, Nerva blockchain turned 6 years old. The screenshot shows premine block that was minted on May 1, 2018. This was the beginning.

We’ve had our ups and downs, people left and people joined but we’re still here, still mining and still trying to make a positive impact on crypto space.

Things might not be moving as fast as some people would like but things are moving forward. That’s the thing with community run crypto project. Nobody is getting paid for putting in their time so the only things that get done are what the community members are willing to do in their spare time.

Hopefully, good times are still ahead.

Cheers to everybody who’s still here and supporting Nerva project in whatever way they can!

Nerva's Journey

Nerva’s Journey in Crypto World

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In the fast paced world of crypto, new coins are being created by the dozen. With each new crypto gem, devs and insiders of those coins keep promising how their project will revolutionize crypto space, how their crypto is the fastest or the best and what great things it will accomplish. Most of those projects are abandoned or left to die after a year or two. When the hype dies down, there is nobody left interested in the project and there are no buyers willing to keep buying the bags of insiders and early investors.

Nerva has been through the hype period in 2018 and 2019. It was able to attract people because of its vision and goals:
– Monero’s privacy with new mining algorithm that helped it be CPU only minable from inception.
– Accelerated emission as an experiment to see if miners are still willing to mine in tail emission.
– Willingness to stick to 1 CPU = 1 VOTE vision.

As time went by, people started losing interest and towards the end of 2021, the person who created Nerva, abandoned it. The experiment was a failure. Nerva was going to end up like most crypto projects: dead.

There were people in Nerva’s community who believed that Nerva’s distribution has been fair. Whoever wanted to mine was able to mine. Whoever wanted to trade could buy or sell at any time in the history of the project. 1% pre-mine that went to the person who created Nerva was most likely sold before he abandoned the project. Those people believed in Nerva vision of privacy and censorship resistance through CPU only mining. They did not allow the project to die.

Today, Nerva is growing again and attracting new people. What makes the project unique? It’s not the privacy, being CPU only minable, having no pools or even 1 CPU = 1 VOTE vision. It’s Nerva’s history. It’s the fact that the project is still alive and that miners are still willing to mine it after being in tail emission for 3 years. It’s the fact that people are willing to work on growing the community, improving and supporting the project.

Finally it’s the fact that Nerva is truly a community project without funder, has 0.84% annual inflation and under $1 million market cap. This gives Nerva plenty of room to grow as it’s able to attract new people who like its vision, history, are willing to get involved and help it grow.