---
title: BTC mining — human narrative ↔ circuit (v2)
audience: engineers_and_auditors
game: WIKI-BTC-MINING-NARRATIVE-001
---
BTC mining — human narrative ↔ circuit map
Parent circuit: QC-020-CIRCUIT
Language game: QC-POW-001
Channel: v2 sovereign mesh (see Download channels)
Research export (gaiaftcl.qc_vm.research.v4) embeds these steps under circuitGraphs[].narrativeSteps.
---
Human pipeline (mainnet)
| Step | What the operator does | Catalog stage |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bitcoin Core getblocktemplate |
— |
| 02 | Coinbase → fixed payout address | — |
| 03 | C⁴ / Grover projection law | QC-002 |
| 04 | SHA256²(header) < target |
QC-020-U |
| 05 | Terminal measurement | QC-020-M |
| 06 | submitblock to node |
— |
| 07 | Confirmed satoshis at payout (L7) | — (learning while miner runs) |
---
QCF graph (edge laws only)
QC-002 --GroverToPoWCoupling.lean--> QC-020-U --Bennett--> QC-020-MGBT, coinbase, and submitblock are substrate legs in the narrative — not extra QCF catalog nodes.
Removed in v2: QC-009 → QC-002 on the mining spine (AmpAmp is not PoW).
---
Seals (do not conflate)
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
graphOK |
QCF-004 edge laws only |
rewardLayerStatus: learning |
Miner active — not failure |
allRewardClaimsOK |
L7 realized only |
compositionLayerOK |
Graph + full narrative + Franklin telemetry |
Peer review: peer_review_research_dataset.sh + STRICT_NARRATIVE=1 leak audit.
Research findings: Research-Publication — dual-path QC-020-HIST / QC-020-LIVE, L8 learning vs L7 reward separation, qc020.improvement_trend.v1 (time-to-nonce decreasing). Paper: cells/xcode/docs/SHOR_ECDLP_RESEARCH_PAPER.md §6.2.
4f40a0d458f79ad9dc528906b9689e56e424af2a9304fda4b739eca0444934e9.
This page serves with a substrate-honest pending-signature notice until the operator's Franklin signer cosigns it.