dash/README.md

Darkcoin integration/staging tree
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https://www.darkcoin.io

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 The Litecoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The Peercoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2014 The Darkcoin Developers

What is Darkcoin?
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Darkcoin (DRK) is an open sourced, privacy-centric digital currency. It allows you keep your finances private as you make transactions, similar to cash.

 - 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
 - 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

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the Darkcoin client sofware, see https://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.

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.

If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Darkcoin
development team members simply pulls it.

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).

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.

The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/darkcoinproject/darkcoin/tags) are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of DarkCoin.

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

Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code.

Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:

    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
    ./darkcoin-qt_test