BTCST was launched on December 13, 2020, by the Standard Hashrate Group, which is backed by industrial-scale Bitcoin miners. These miners collectively represented 12% of BTC's global hashrate as of February 2021. BTCST was introduced with an initial token supply of 1,000,000 tokens. As of March 2021, it has a circulating supply of 589,388 BTCST and a maximum supply of 1,500,000 BTCST. A pool functions as the auditor for BTCST, ensuring legitimacy and transparency. BTCST is governed in the form of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), where token holders, miners, and the broader token community collectively decide on material issues associated with the project.