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DarkCoin integration/staging tree
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http://www.darkcoin.io
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Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
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Copyright (c) 2013-2014 DarkCoin Developers
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What is DarkCoin?
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DarkCoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using X11 as a proof-of-work algorithm.
- Super secure hashing algorithm: 11 rounds of scientific hashing functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo)
- Block reward is controlled by moore's law: 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2)
- GPU/CPU only mining
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- Block generation: 2.5 minutes
- Difficulty Retargets every block using Dark Gravity Wave
- Est. ~7M Coins in 2015, ~13M in 2020, ~23M in 2030
- Anonymous blockchain using DarkSend technology (Based on CoinJoin): Beta Testing
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the DarkCoin client sofware, see http://www.darkcoin.io.
License
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DarkCoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Development process
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Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think
their feature or bug fix is ready.
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If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the DarkCoin
development team members simply pulls it.
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If it is a *more complicated or potentially controversial* change, then the patch
submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
[mailing list](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development).
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The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.txt`) or are
controversial.
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The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags) are created
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regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of DarkCoin.
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Testing
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Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
lots of money.
### Automated Testing
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Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code.
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Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:
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cd src; make -f makefile.unix test
Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
make -f Makefile.test
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./darkcoin-qt_test