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This is the first step in making the high priority transaction area available to more people. Future versions of Litecoin will eventually reduce this to 1KB per tx to match Bitcoin 0.8.6+. We decline to make that drastic of a reduction now as currently p2pool miners have too much dust to combine. Litecoin plays an active role in p2pool development to make this less of a problem. Litecoin helped p2pool version 13 to reduce the frequency of dust payouts and increase the smallest dust size to be roughly 5x bigger. An upcoming version of p2pool is expected to eliminate a lot more dust payouts. Modified-from: 9612e4c0d9730dbdb9971e53c72df17dd97daa2a |
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Litecoin integration/staging tree
Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Litecoin Developers
What is Litecoin?
Litecoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.
- 2.5 minute block targets
- subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
- ~84 million total coins
The rest is the same as Bitcoin.
- 50 coins per block
- 2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Litecoin client sofware, see http://www.litecoin.org.
License
Litecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development process
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 Litecoin 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.
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 are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Litecoin.
Testing
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
./litecoin-qt_test