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http://www.darkcoin.io
https://www.darkcoin.io
Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 DarkCoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 The Litecoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The Peercoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2014 The Darkcoin Developers
What is DarkCoin?
What is Darkcoin?
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DarkCoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using X11 as a proof-of-work algorithm.
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
- Anonymous blockchain using Darksend technology
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the DarkCoin client sofware, see http://www.darkcoin.io.
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
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
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