luisantoniocrag / circcash

Circcash is the only cryptocurrency with a mining algorithm that is designed to advance science. Circcash mining will accelerate the development of reversible computational hardware.

Circcash integration/staging tree

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Litecoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2020 Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

What is Circcash?

Circcash is a fork of Bitcoin using Hashspin as a proof-of-work algorithm. Hashspin is designed to accelerate the development of reversible computing hardware. Hashspin is the only cryptocurrency mining algorithm that is designed to solve an extremely important scientific problem.

• 2.0 minute block targets
• 10 CIRCs per block
• No subsidy halving
• Supply increases linearly (to better advance science)
• Mining reward remains constant
• 2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
• 12.5% of newly mined coins will be sent to a development fund. The development fund will be cut off after the following two conditions are BOTH met:

1. The cryptocurrency has been out for four years, and

2. The total number of 'hashes' computed for mining exceeds a threshold.

• Forked from Litecoin v0.8.7.5

The Circcash development team may cut off the 12.5% funding early.

The rest is the same as Bitcoin/Litecoin.

License

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

Installation

Go to this link for instructions for installing Circcash on Ubuntu.

https://github.com/jvanname/circcash/blob/master/Ubuntu%20installation%20instructions

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 Circcash 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 with the devs and community.

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 Circcash.

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
./circcash-qt_test