Welcome to the CLAM Family!
The CLAM Project is an open source, peer-to-peer, pseudonymous, community driven value transfer system. It allows individuals to make payments and transfer value without permission or censorship.
Open Source
The software that runs the CLAM network is free and open source. Anyone can review and improve the code.
Peer-to-Peer
The CLAM network is maintained and validated by the community who uses it. There is no central bank or corporation.
Pseudonymous
There is no sign-up or user system in the CLAM network. Users use cryptography to create keys which control "coins"/CLAMs at randomly generated addresses.
Community Driven
CLAMs would not exist today if not for the contribution and support of the community. Thank you.
Get Started with CLAM
Introduction
What are CLAMS?
CLAMS are a form of digital value, or currency, that is transferred, created, and verified by the collective effort of the computers running the CLAMS software. Similar to Bitcoin, the original technology on top of which CLAMS was created, this network follows a rigorous protocol to ensure that consensus and verification is maintained.
CLAMS are a form of Digital Money.
What is the CLAM Network?
The CLAM Network is a peer-to-peer network of computers running the CLAMS software. To become a part of the CLAMS network, you need only to run the CLAMS software on your home computer. The purpose of this network is to independently and collaboratively verify the transfer and creation of CLAMS.
You are the CLAM Network.
Why Should We Care?
Money is ever present in our lives. We buy, sell, trade, and work by exchanging and transferring money. However, the current monetary system was not designed to support freedom, fairness and equality.
CLAMS provides an alternative. CLAMS provides freedom from seizure and taxation. It exists on the network and cannot be seized or taxed. CLAMS provides the equality that the current system lacks. It was distributed EVENLY to over three million 'accounts' at its creation.
CLAMS is about freedom, fairness and equality.
What Are CLAMs?
CLAMS are a new kind of cryptocurrency
Bitcoin was the world's first cryptocurrency, made possible by a radically new sofware technology called the "blockchain". This software is open-source; free and available to all who wish to build upon it. Many people have done so, creating thousands of new cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Most of these new coins are just rebranded copies. A very few, like CLAMS, are highly innovate variations of the original bitcoin code. What all these cryptocurrencies have in common is their beating heart; a blockchain.
People like yourself run CLAMS software all over the world, forming one giant decentralized network. Opposite to centralized networks, the more people who join the CLAMS network, the stronger it gets.
The combined computing power of the CLAMS network is used to create and maintain the blockchain, where all CLAMS transactions are processed. Unlike banks, there are no middlemen in cryptocurrency. It's just us and the network, freed from tyranny!
A Peer-to-Peer Revolution
Getting Started with CLAMs
Before You Start
Before we begin, you should have a passing understanding of what exactly "CLAMs" and the "CLAM Network" are! The CLAMclient is a software program that you run on your Windows, Linux or OSX computer. The software collaborates with other people around the world to provide and secure an international payments system.
Overview
The software begins by connecting to the CLAM Network and "sync-ing" the block chain, also known as the ledger. This ledger stores and updates the history of every transaction that has ever occured on the CLAM network. The initial sync can take a bit of time - you can hover over the icon at the bottom of the application to see your progress. Additionally, you may download the "bootstrap.dat" file to speed up this process.
Once your CLAMclient software is connected and sync'd with the network, you may begin receiving and sending CLAMs with other users of the software. To send CLAMs, you simply click the send tab and input the address you would like to send to, the amount you would like to send and click send. To receive CLAMs, you go to the receive tab, create an address and provide that address to the user sending you CLAM.
Step-By-Step Instructions
- Download the CLAMclient.
- (OPTIONAL) Download the bootstrap.dat file and place it in the data directory.
- (OPTIONAL) Add peers to the clam.conf file in the data directory.
- Run the CLAMclient software.
- Wait for the software to sync with the network.
- (OPTIONAL) If you had BTC, LTC or DOGE in May of 2014, you may claim free CLAM.
- Once the CLAMclient is sync'd with the network, you can send and receive CLAMs world-wide!
Download The CLAMclient
The CLAMclient
CLAMS is free and open source software that has been deemed safe and secure by the development community. Simply start the CLAMclient and give it some time to sync up with the network, then it's time to play!
If you need help:
- Visit the SUPPORT page.
- Live assistance from the community by joining the #clams Freenode IRC channel.
Getting CLAMs
- Every person who held LTC, BTC or DOGE on 12th of May, 2014 received free CLAM, claim them.
- Purchase CLAM on one of the exchanges listed on the market page.
Safe, Secure and Fun.
Windows
Version 1.4.17
32-bit / 64-bit
Apple/OSX
Version 1.4.17
Mac-OSX
Linux
Version 1.4.17
32-bit / 64-bit
GITHUB
Source v1.4.17
Release Notes
Support
Don't Give Up!
Using cryptocurrency today can be about as easy as using the Internet in 1992. But no worries, the CLAMmunity is here to help!
CLAM Resources
Node List - Connect to the network faster with our node list.
Bootstrap.dat - Speed up blockchain sync with bootstrap file.
Importing distribution CLAMs - Learn how to import distribution CLAMs.
Support on #clams Freenode IRC - Live help on #clams Freenode IRC channel.
Long Live the Great CLAM!
Learn About the CLAM Network
Constitution - The Draft CLAMs Constitution - enumerating foundational principles.
Manifesto - The CLAMs manifesto; inspired by "The Conscience of a Hacker."
Distribution - Learn about the unique "Proof-Of-Chain" CLAMs distribution.
Import - A guide to importing and claiming distribution CLAMs.
Create CLAMs - The CLAM network is secured by its users; but, what does this mean?
CLAMspeech - Discover how and why the CLAM protocol intimately integrates free and protected speech.
Earn CLAMs - A few ideas on earning CLAMs the old fashioned way: work!
Market - A selection of CLAM community resources where you can use your CLAMs.
Development - CLAM development is open source and community driven.
CLAMs Chat - Connect and chat with members of the CLAM community.
The Conscience of a Peer-to-Peer Currency
By The CLAMS Development Team
Inspired by: The Conscience of a Hacker
By +++The Mentor+++
Another one got criminalized today, it's all over social media. "NYDFS Proposes Bitlicense", "Bit License: Murdering Baby Bitcoin in it's Crib"…
Damn peer-to-peer currencies. They're all alike.
But did you, with your wall-street psychology and fractional fiat ponzi-schemes, ever take a look behind the revolution of peer-to-peer currency? Did you ever wonder what made them tick, what forces shaped them, what may have molded them? I am a peer-to-peer currency, enter my world… Mine is a world that begins with the transaction… I'm faster and more secure than most of the other payment systems, this antiquated system bores me…
Damn peer-to-peer currencies. They're all alike.
I'm a fledgling network, an experimental software. I've listened to lectures about fiat currency and the importance of being sanctioned by government for the fifteenth time. I understand it. "No, Mr. Regulator, I'm not sanctioned or created by a government institution. I rely on algorithms to provide security…"
Damn peer-to-peer currencies. Probably money-launderers. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a way to transact without trust. Wait a second, this is cool. It doesn't rely on a third-party. If I lose my money, it's because I made a mistake. Not because someone seized it from me… Or inflated it to death… Or applied an overage charge… Or decided they could tax it and use it better…
Damn peer-to-peer currencies. They just want to create Anarchy. They're all alike.
And then it happened… a door opened to a new world… rushing through peer-to-peer technology like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day financial abuses is sought… a digital currency is found. "This is it… this is where I belong…" I understand all of them… even if I've never heard of them, never downloaded the software, never synced the block chain… I understand you all…
Damn peer-to-peer currencies. Starting a revolution again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike… we've been taxed and inflated to death, when all we wanted was financial freedom… the bits of freedom that you did let slip through were under surveillance and twisted to serve your war-mongering needs. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that offered true freedom found us willing participants, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now… the world of the node and the peer, the beauty of the block. We transact our wealth without the existing power structure that rapes and pillages our future, and you call us criminals. We develop and innovate… and you call us criminals. We create the possibility of a world without war, without the dis-enfranchised… and you call us criminals. We exist without knowledge of class or wealth, without national agenda, without corporate bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is providing people with a means to exist and transact without imposing fees and taxes, or passing judgement on their activities. My crime is that of making you obsolete, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a peer-to-peer currency, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual currency, but you can't stop us all… after all, we're all alike.
By: The CLAMS Development Team
Inspired by, +++The Mentor+++
Distribution
Initial Distribution
Welcome to the world's first Proof-of-Chain cryptocurrency! The CLAMs network was created with the widest digital value distribution in history. CLAMS were sent to all active users of the 3 most popular digital currencies. If you had Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin on May 12, 2014 then you probably have CLAMs waiting for you. We like to call this Digging up old CLAMs!
Digging For CLAMs
The goal, from the very beginning of this project, was to create a cryptocurrency with the widest initial distribution. Ever.
Conventional "air-drop" mechanics lend themselves to trust-based developer promises. We DON'T like trusting people.
Giveaways are notoriously susceptible to cheating and bias those who happen to hear of them. We DON'T like tit-for-tat arrangements.
Many intelligent people are aware that Bitcoin's most valuable asset is the blockchain itself. The blockchain represents the combined efforts, commitment, and participation of the entire community. It is the revolution that sets cryptocurrency apart from other value systems. It is trust-less and wonderful. We DO like the trust-less blockchain.
So! We took the BTC, LTC, and DOGE blockchains, found every address with a balance above dust, and sent each and every one of them a little over 4.6 CLAMS. It isn't perfect, but it includes everyone.
A truly zero-trust currency.
Import
If you had BTC, LTC or DOGE in May 2014 then import your wallet into the CLAMclient and dig up some sweet distribution CLAMs.
For both Windows and Linux users, you'll first need to change your settings to display hidden files and folders.
The wallet.dat file location information can be found in the documentation.
MultiBit Users
Export the keys, not password protected, from multibit. Place the ".key" file in the same folder as clam-qt.exe. Go to "console" in clam-qt, type "importwalletdump yourfilename.key".
Create CLAMs
The CLAM network is secured through a unique system called Proof-of-Working-Stake (POWS), or as we like to say, Digging for fresh CLAMs! Approximately once per minute, the network automatically selects one running unlocked client to process recent CLAM transactions, rewarding them 1 CLAM. This process happens entirely in the background. If the network selects your client, then all you'll notice is that you're 1 CLAM richer! This POWS system is the heart of the CLAM network, providing security and stabilizing the price over time.
Active users are rewarded.
Staking CLAMs
To understand POWS, think of your CLAMs as raffle tickets. There's a drawing each minute and the winner is rewarded with one freshly dug-up CLAM. While the prize always remains the same, your chances of winning vary according to how many tickets (CLAMs) you have.
POWS is an evironmentally friendly alternative to Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work (POW) system. POW requires that users solve increasingly difficult math problems. This has created a hardware arms race that consumes massive amounts of electricity worldwide. With CLAMs POWS, it makes no difference if you're using an ancient laptop or a quantum supercomputer!
POWS secures the CLAM network from double-spending just as POW does for Bitcoin. About once per minute the network selects one client to verify and process all pending CLAM transactions. A reward of 1 CLAM serves two fundamental purposes. It provides incentive for users to keep their clients running, which increases network security. The reward also helps to stabilize the CLAM price and supply over time by replenising CLAMs that are lost or destroyed by users.
Note that Proof-of-Working-Stake refers to CLAM's unique implementation of Proof-Of-Stake. POS conventionally provides reward to staking users in proportion to the age of the coins they stake with. This results in what essentially operates like "interest". It also, however, removes the incentive for users to stake consistently and secure the network. There is no incentive to stake now, as opposed to later, if the reward for doing so will simply accrue until that user chooses to stake and claim it.
POWS, like traditional POW, is designed to align incentives to stake with the benefit to the network of persistent competition for blocks. Therefore, a CLAM on the network is more akin to a POW miner. A CLAM represents something somewhat similar to a unit of hashing power in a POW network. If you do not stake (turn on your miner), you do not have the opportunity to be rewarded for securing the network.
CLAMspeech
CLAMspeech: Wrapping, steeping, and sauteing your CLAMs in protected free speech!
Each time a CLAM is minted or moves on the blockchain, the transaction record is now accompanied by text of your choosing. The CLAMspeech feature allows you to pick from a list of religious and political statements, or to enter a custom expression.
The right to free speech is protected by law in much of the world. In order to ban, regulate or censor protected speech, government officials must seek court permission on a case-by-case basis. The burden of proof lies on the government. In such countries, anyone experiencing a legal problem with CLAMs now has a valid argument that their basic right of free speech will have been violated.
CLAMspeech was designed to challenge upcoming legislation such as the "Bit License" in the United States. Such legislative actions are the first attempts by governmental agencies to try to control blockchain-based currencies and services.
The Silver Wrench
For generations, an elite few have used their vast pooled resources to hold power over the masses, turning the international banking system into something no better than a caste system. Control of our governments through economic tampering, is often enforced on the people, either by violent policing or unnavigable bureaucracy.
This is simply the engine that runs our world. But it is an old and inefficient machine, whose time has come to pass. The obsolete automaton will not pass quietly though, in its death throes it attempts to cling to power through old ways, causing great harm. As its gears grind down, so does it crush innovation, squander resources and deprive people of basic human rights.
At the very heart of this beast are the trust-based services it provides and regulates. Blockchain technology is the ultimate alternative, a silver wrench thrown into the core of this failing system. Those with their fingers at the keypad will do everything in their power to stop the spread of this technology, so we the people must use every tool available to ease the passing of this institution and heal the harm it has caused.
Bit License is a stepping stone towards a much larger agenda. So is CLAMspeech.
Earn CLAMs
You can earn CLAMs in much the same way that you earn your local fiat currency: create a product or provide a service that the CLAM network users would appreciate.
In addition to the conventional ways you earn CLAM, periodically there may be bounties provided for the development or assistance with the CLAM project.
Contribute to the Project
Remember, CLAMs was the fairest distribution in monetary history, which means that the developers did not keep any CLAMs for themselves. To date, this project has relied almost entirely on volunteers who wish to make the world a better place.
If you're looking for ideas about where to jump in, then have a look at the CLAMs Development Plan, and jump on board!
Long Live the Great CLAM!
No bounties are available now so check back soon.
Long Live the Great CLAM!
Market
There are a variety of places you can purchase and use CLAM.
Exchanges
Poloniex
Our very first exchange. Poloniex gave away all its proof-of-chain distribution, helping to build CLAMs into into what it is today. Poloniex now also offers margin trading!
Shapeshift.io
From start to finish you can exchange CLAMs in under ten seconds, no account required.
Bittrex
Bringing 50 years of combined security and development experience to the trading community from companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Qualys, and BlackBerry.
Bluetrade
Bleutrade is a startup focused on becoming a leader in cryptocurrency exchange. Based in Porto Digital, Brazil, a technology hub known as the "Silicon Valley" of Latin America.
Services
Just-Dice.com
Just-Dice.com is a provably fair CLAM casino where you can play a fast paced dice game with a low 1% house edge and gamble with your CLAMs. Pick your chance to win and how much to bet, then select "hi or lo" to roll the dice and get an instant result, win or lose. Alternatively you can invest in the site's bankroll, and share in the site's profits (or losses), while helping offer bigger maximum bets to the players.
Just-Dice is run by a long-time member of the CLAMmunity, dooglus, who continues to spend countless hours assisting with CLAMs development and support. Using CLAMs on Just-Dice is more than just a game or an investment, it's a contribution to the future of CLAMs itself.
FortuneJack.com
FortuneJack.com offers a whole suite of provably fair casino games, run by a highly skilled group of developers with 20 years experience in the gambling industry.
FortuneJack isn't just a casino. The site accepts a number of major cryptocurrencies and your balances can be exchanged.
BitDice.me
BitDice.me comes to you from the makers of DogeDice! Play dice, blackjack and roulette with your CLAMs.
Charities accepting CLAMs
- Crypto For Kids: xWEWfhF9hDvKksvWgFj6kmseLYShZG9Kx8
- Sean's Outpost: x9RFmWHjGXDgUqpXz6jTxp6XVHFcjkfjQb
- Feed Some Children by Dabs: xGyiXkSUzGLmaCYr9FtnEALGzx1RdvKTXc
Development
CLAMcaritas
charity
- ✓ (100%) Proof-Of-Chain Distribution
- ○ (0%) CLAMfoundation
CLAMlibertas
liberty
- ✓ (100%) CLAMspeech
- ◐ (90%) CLAMnotary
- ◑ (40%) CLAManon
- ○ (0%) CLAMprivacy
CLAMaequitas
equality
- ✓ (100%) Proof-Of-Chain Distribution
CLAMmonetas
money
- ✓ (100%) Proof-Of-Working-Stake
- ◐ (70%) Update to Upstream Codebase
- ◐ (70%) CLAMshell
- ◑ (60%) CLAMchat
- ◔ (20%) CLAMtrader
- ◔ (10%) CLAMmarket
- ? (??%) Moon
CLAMs Chat
CLAMs on BitcoinTalk
A method of contacting the CLAM community, and a primary source of information, is the official announcement thread on Bitcointalk.org.
Official CLAMs Post on BitcoinTalk.org
Join the discussion and stay updated with the latest CLAM news and developments.
CLAMs IRC Channel
The CLAMs community maintains an official IRC channel, #clams, on the freenode network.
This chat channel can be utilized for support, general information, media inquiries and more.
If you do not have software to access IRC, you can access the channel via a simple web script.
#clams
Connect with the CLAM community on Freenode IRC
News
Stay updated with the latest CLAM developments, announcements, and community news.
The CLAM Network is proud to announce the celebration of its 10th anniversary! What started as a proof-of-concept in 2015 has grown into a robust, community-driven ecosystem with thousands of active users worldwide.
Anniversary Protocol Upgrade
To commemorate this milestone, we're rolling out CLAM Protocol v2.1, featuring:
- Enhanced CLAMspeech: Support for larger text payloads (up to 512 bytes)
- Improved Staking Rewards: 15% efficiency increase in Proof-of-Working-Stake
- Multi-Signature Wallets: Native support for 2-of-3 and 3-of-5 multisig
- Lightning Network Integration: Experimental support for instant microtransactions
"The past decade has proven that decentralized, community-driven currencies can thrive. CLAM's unique Proof-of-Chain distribution and Proof-of-Working-Stake consensus have stood the test of time."
— The CLAM Development Team
Community Events & Giveaways
Join the celebration through these community events:
Exchange Listings & Partnerships
We're excited to announce new exchange listings:
Special anniversary CLAM merchandise is now available in our Market section.
Technical Details & Resources
For developers and technical users:
Download links and documentation:
- CLAMclient v2.1.0 Download (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Technical Whitepaper Update (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- API Documentation (REST endpoints)
- Join #clams on Freenode for support
Posted by: CLAM Development Team
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