eCent is internet’s decentralized currency aimed at low cost transactions, an option for merchants to get the payments faster than any other form of currency. Its here to solve the problems of slow transactions between users
- Uses Proof of work – Scrypt hashing algorithm, best for GPUS like AMD and nVidia.
- 25,000 coins per block initially
- halving every 50 days or 720 blocks.
- total of 3.7B coins approximately.
- difficulty re-target every 20 block
- block generation every 2 minutes
- fastest transactions faster than Litecoin.
For more details and wallet downloads for windows, linux and mac please visit http://ecent.pw
eCent is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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 eCent 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 eCent.
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.
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
./ecent-qt_test