THE MISSING RECIPE BEHIND BITCOIN'S STARTING POINT
Brian Mingus | Research white paper | Version 1.0 | 17 October 2026

Read bitcoin-generator-whitepaper.pdf for the finished paper.
Edit main.tex and references.bib for the manuscript and bibliography.
Open this folder in Codex's LaTeX editor for an editable source and preview.

BUILD
Use a current TeX Live or MiKTeX installation with the standard LaTeX,
recommended fonts, extra LaTeX packages, and BibTeX collections.
The project uses pdfLaTeX and does not require shell escape.

  latexmk -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error main.tex

Or run pdflatex, bibtex main, pdflatex, pdflatex in that order.
The resulting main.pdf is the same document as the named release PDF.

EVIDENCE
evidence/secp-generator-investigation/ contains the verification bundle.
PAPER-VALIDATION.json records the fresh paper-preparation replay.
Appendix C lists the nine standard-library Python verification commands.
Run them from the investigation directory, without Python optimization.
The separate Appendix B calculation can also be checked with:
  python -E -s -S -B archive-and-stream/check_polynomial_identity.py
Some scripts write result JSON files beside their input fixtures.

Historical checkpoints are preserved, including superseded search results.
Read LATEST-FINDINGS.txt, archive-and-stream/FINDINGS.txt, and the paper
for the current interpretation. The original seed/program is unresolved.
SHA256SUMS.txt inventories this package before distribution.

TEMPLATE
Rho v3.0.1 (2026), adapted for this white paper. See TEMPLATE-NOTICE.txt,
template-provenance.json, and rho-class/LICENSE for attribution and changes.
