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A digital currency with mining decentralisation and ASIC resistance as a key focus

License: MIT License

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vertcoin-core's Introduction

Vertcoin Core integration/staging tree

https://vertcoin.org

What is Vertcoin?

Vertcoin is a fork of Bitcoin that is designed to resist the monopolisation of mining power.

2.5 minute block targets
subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
~84 million total coins
50 coins per block (25 after block 840,000)
Difficulty retargeting every block to recover from large hashrate swings
Lyra2REv3 proof of work algorithm for ASIC resistance

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Vertcoin client software, see http://www.vertcoin.org.

License

Vertcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

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 Vertcoin Core.

Developers work on their own forks and submit pull requests in order to merge changes with master. Due to the relatively small size of the development team, developers also commit directly to the repo often. Anyone is allowed to contribute though and useful pull requests will almost always be accepted given various obvious stipulations regarding stability etc.

The Vertcoin discord or subreddit should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes with the developers before working on a patch set.

Testing

Vertcoin currently relies on Bitcoin Core for its testcases, and few of them are known to work, though the software is based on fully test conforming upstream Bitcoin Core versions. We would be grateful to those who can help port the existing Bitcoin Core test cases to Vertcoin such that they can be used to assure correctness.