Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers Copyright (c) 2013-2014 VirtualCoin Developers
VirtualCoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using X11 as a proof-of-work algorithm.
- Super secure hashing algorithm: 11 rounds of scientific hashing functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo)
- Block reward is controlled by moore's law: 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2)
- GPU/CPU only mining
- Block generation: 2.5 minutes
- Difficulty Retargets every block using Dark Gravity Wave
- Est. ~7M Coins in 2015, ~13M in 2020, ~23M in 2030
- Anonymous blockchain using VirtualSend technology (Based on CoinJoin): Beta Testing
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the VirtualCoin client sofware, see http://www.vcoin.ca.
VirtualCoin 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 VirtualCoin 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 VirtualCoin.
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
./virtualcoin-qt_test