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http://www.piggy-coin.com

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Piggycoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2014 Hackcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 NovaCoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 PPCoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Litecoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers

What is Piggycoin?

Piggycoin is a beginner-friendly cryptocurrency that uses X11 for proof-of-work, adds proof-of-stake at block 8,000 and depricates proof-of-work at block 10,000.

  • 1 minute block targets
  • 1,000,000,000 total coins
  • 23,700 coins per block (PoW until block 10,000)
  • 0.13% effective annual interest (PoS @ block 8,000)
  • 3% interest (@ block 415,000 Approx March 7th, 2015)

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Piggycoin client sofware, see http://www.piggy-coin.org.

Getting Started

How to build PiggyCoin

sudo apt-get install build-essential \
                     libssl-dev \
                     libdb5.1++-dev \
                     libboost-all-dev \
                     libqrencode-dev \
                     libminiupnpc-dev

cd src/
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= USE_IPV6=1 USE_QRCODE=1

Quickstart for Linux Users

cd ~
sudo apt-get install build-essential \
                     libssl-dev \
                     libdb5.1++-dev \
                     libboost-all-dev \
                     libqrencode-dev \
                     libminiupnpc-dev \
                     libcurl4-openssl-dev \
                     qt4*
git clone https://github.com/piggycoin/newpiggycoin.git
cd newpiggycoin
qmake USE_UPNP=0 USE_IPV6=1 USE_QRCODE=1 && make

For more information and options, please look at doc/build-unix.md.