Bitcoin.one Presale Explained: Stages, Prices and Claims

The Bitcoin.one presale, as described in the whitepaper, sells 8.4 billion BC1 (40% of supply) in 30 stages of 280 million tokens, with prices rising from $0.0010 to $0.0035 and a planned listing price of $0.0040. Buyers claim tokens at the token generation event. These are plans from a draft document, not guarantees.

The stage structure

The whitepaper says each stage is 280 million BC1, and a stage advances when that amount has sold across all supported chains plus card and crypto purchases through NOWPayments, or after 3 days, whichever comes first. Stages only move forward, and prices are fixed at deployment. Price rises about 4.41% per stage.

Item	Stated value
Stages	30
Tokens per stage	280,000,000 BC1
Stage 1 price	$0.0010
Stage 30 price	$0.0035
Planned listing price	$0.0040
Stage 1 raise (if sold out)	$280,000
Stage 30 raise (if sold out)	$980,000
Hard cap (full sell-out, no bonuses)	$16,836,736
Minimum purchase	$10

A rising price schedule rewards early buyers on paper, but the listing price is a target. Market price after launch depends on liquidity, demand and the supply that unlocks, as we describe in BC1 tokenomics. The paper also notes that referral bonuses count toward stage tokens, so the real dollar total would be lower than the hard cap if bonuses are used.

Where you can pay

The paper lists presale chains: Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain for EVM payments, and Solana through a separate program. Accepted assets include ETH, BNB, SOL, USDT and USDC, priced by Chainlink feeds for ETH and BNB and Pyth for SOL, with stablecoins at 1:1. NOWPayments adds card, BTC and 300+ other coins. The presale contracts are described as forwarding payments to the treasury in the same transaction, so no funds are pooled in the contract.

Oracle-priced payments carry a technical risk: if a feed is stale or fails, pricing can go wrong. The paper mentions staleness checks but not the exact maximum age values, which it lists among unstated details.

Referrals and presale staking

Referrals give the buyer +5% BC1 and the referrer +5%, with no self-referral bonus. Presale staking is available on EVM chains only; APR equals the reward rate divided by total staked, so it falls as more is staked, and rewards are added to the TGE claim. Whether the effective rate is attractive depends on figures the paper does not state.

NOWPayments buyers

People who pay by card or other coins get an account by email. A 6-digit code, valid for 15 minutes with 5 attempts, links purchases to an app wallet. The paper also admits a limitation: those entitlements rely on a database until they are committed to the Merkle root. That is an operational trust point, separate from the on-chain contracts.

How claims work

At TGE, a ClaimDistributor contract uses a Merkle tree whose leaves are (address, total amount), covering all chains, NOWPayments purchases, referral bonuses and presale staking. The paper says unclaimed tokens can be recovered by the owner 180 days after claims open, so do not leave a claim sitting.

Key takeaway: in a presale you pay now for a promise of tokens later. Everything between payment and claim, including the launch date, depends on the project executing.

What to check before paying

1. Confirm the official app address from the Bitcoin.one app page and avoid links from social posts.
2. Read the risk disclosure, which warns about total loss and no investor protection.
3. Note what is missing: team identity, legal entity, jurisdiction and audit firm are not stated in the paper.
4. Work through our crypto presale risk checklist.
5. Check whether your local laws and tax rules allow it; the project says it does not geo-block.

The paper is also unclear on KYC, so ask yourself what you would do if something went wrong and no one could be contacted. A smaller test purchase is a common way to confirm the flow works before committing more, though it does not remove the risks above.

Bottom line

The structure is clear and unusually specific: stage sizes, prices, a hard cap, a claim mechanism. What remains unverified is delivery. Treat the figures as the project’s own plan and use the primary source for current numbers, because the document is a draft. Our guide to reading a whitepaper explains how to weigh the gaps. This is not investment advice.

Working through the price schedule

Prices rise about 4.41% per stage, compounding from $0.0010. After a handful of stages the price is already visibly higher, and by stage 30 it is $0.0035, which is 3.5 times the first stage. The planned $0.0040 listing price is about 14% above stage 30 and four times stage 1. Percent differences like these are what marketing calls “upside”, so it is worth pausing on what they assume: that the token lists at the planned price, that the market accepts it, and that supply that is claimable at TGE does not overwhelm demand.

Stage	Price (stated)	Tokens	Raise if sold out
1	$0.0010	280M	$280,000
30	$0.0035	280M	$980,000
Listing (planned)	$0.0040	n/a	n/a

The stage-to-stage step is small enough that the “next stage is more expensive” urgency should not override your own due diligence. A stage can also advance after three days regardless of sales, so a price rise is not evidence of demand.

Timing and the “when do I get my tokens” question

Between payment and claim there is a gap of months, since the paper places the TGE in Q1 2027 and the presale in Q4 2026. During that gap you hold a claim entitlement, not a tradable token. Presale staking, where it is available on EVM chains, adds rewards to the TGE claim, but the paper does not state the reward rate or pool size, so you cannot compute a return from it.

Also note that the paper’s roadmap items are targets “subject to change”. If TGE slips, your funds stay committed for longer. Ask yourself whether you would still be comfortable with that.

Practical steps if you decide to participate

1. Use only the official domain, reached by typing it, and ignore direct messages offering help.
2. Pick the chain and asset carefully: gas costs differ, and BNB Chain is presale-only with no BC1 mirror listed in the paper.
3. Keep your transaction hash and wallet address, since claims are keyed to address.
4. If you buy with card or BTC through NOWPayments, expect the email and six-digit code linking step, and complete it promptly because the code is valid for 15 minutes.
5. Record the date 180 days after claims open, because the paper says unclaimed tokens can then be recovered by the owner.
6. Review the token vesting article so you know when other supply unlocks.

What this article cannot tell you

We do not know who the team is, because the paper does not say. We cannot confirm the audit status beyond “planned”. We have not verified the contracts on mainnet because they are not deployed there yet. And we cannot tell you whether the planned listing price is realistic. Those are the right questions to hold open, and the project’s own risk page says you should be prepared to lose all the money you put in.