Donut Coin

Princess Donut, the Queen Anne Chonk. No value, all fun.

Download

One file. Run it: it asks for the @username of your account on the Wallet page and mines into it, or makes you a wallet file (back up ~/.donutcoin/wallet.json; it is your coins) and mines to that. Version v0.2.0 2026-09-26, built by GitHub from the source at v0.2.0. Each file's SHA-256 is shown so you can check what you downloaded (shasum -a 256 file on a Mac, certutil -hashfile file SHA256 on Windows).

Mac, Apple silicon (M1 and later)

Safari unpacks the zip. Double-click the file: Terminal opens and macOS says it cannot verify it. Open System Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down, click Open Anyway, then double-click again. Once. Or skip the dialog with the Terminal line below. 21 MB.

SHA-256 b3786867008e97b04443ccb2ce3016f4c882209b9bb26672c189dbaf64b6bd6c

Mac, Intel

SHA-256 5cc99b5e1ca5d4e371a1eb066c128e1431197fbf82808f0b40253df75ee61b7f

Windows

Windows will say it is unrecognised: More info, then Run anyway. Once. 22 MB.

SHA-256 1c84f2a7e7257b755e0645772b3f74cd4fdbc654aede035176334481e21b6097

Linux (x86_64)

chmod +x the file, then run it. 38 MB.

SHA-256 f4fef15e62608366a0e7b3a3db53428d50cf432f6ac7d2e5f39e7555ee84a7c0

Linux (arm64: Raspberry Pi, Ampere, an ARM VPS)

chmod +x the file, then run it. 37 MB.

SHA-256 2ed1b071d93594cfd5679abd451239fec932bf7c64680374fcb00c77fe8f5251

These files are not signed by Apple or Microsoft, so the first open needs the extra step described beside each one. Signing costs a yearly fee; it may come later.

Mac, the Terminal way

One line after the download. It makes the file runnable, clears the quarantine flag macOS puts on downloads, and starts it. Change arm64 to intel on an Intel Mac.

cd ~/Downloads && chmod +x donutcoin-macos-arm64 && xattr -d com.apple.quarantine donutcoin-macos-arm64; ./donutcoin-macos-arm64

Right-click, Open no longer works for command-line programs on macOS 15 and later; only Open Anyway in Privacy & Security, or the line above, does.

Or, if you have Python

Mac or Linux:

curl -fsSL https://donutcoin.meme/install.sh | bash

Windows, in PowerShell:

irm https://donutcoin.meme/install.ps1 | iex

Or, with Docker

A full node, its explorer and the wallet, in one command. It runs as an unprivileged user, keeps everything in a named volume, and mines nothing unless you ask it to.

git clone https://donutcoin.meme/source donutcoin && cd donutcoin
docker compose up -d        # then http://localhost:8555

Or pull the prebuilt image instead of building. It is multi-arch, so it covers a Raspberry Pi as well as an ordinary PC, and a new one is published with every release: the image and its one-line pull command are here.

docker compose down -v removes it and its data completely. Back up wallet.json from the volume first if you have mined anything: it is your keys, and it is the only file here that cannot be downloaded again.

What you get

The same program either way: donutcoin start mines, donutcoin wallet holds and sends, donutcoin node runs a full node with its own explorer at http://localhost:8555. The source is MIT-licensed and short enough to read in an evening.