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http://marketchange.github.io

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Litecoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2014 The MarketChange Developers

Block Explorer

http://chgexplorer.tk

Pool

http://chgpool.tk:15437/static

Ports

  • RPC Port 14437
  • P2P Port 14438 (Testnet: 13438)

What is MarketChange?

MarketChange is a clone of Litecoin that is meant to make it easy for merchants to accept cryptocurrency.

  • 55 second block targets
  • subsidy lessens in 574k blocks (~1 year)
  • ~200 million total coins
  • 50 coins per block
  • 2 blocks to retarget difficulty

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the MarketChange client sofware, see http://marketchange.github.io

FAQ

-Why is the genesis block from so long ago? Because I had originally started making the coin at that time, but other things got in the way so the release was held back.

-I want to donate! Great! You can send MarketChange to this address: MREjSSg3CHZ4oDqSKCYM5RQypEZbuqRBZV

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 marketchange-qt.pro
make -f Makefile.test
./litecoin-qt_test