Features and Specs

Specs

• LWMA difficulty algorithm zawy12/difficulty-algorithms#3
• Lbk3 POW algorithm - we fork on Block 100 000
• vNodes
• Tor integration
• Blocktime: 2 minutes
• Blocksize: 2 MB
• Coin Maturity: 50
• Maximum Supply: 35 million

Linux Build Instructions and Notes

Dependencies

1. Update packages

   sudo apt-get update
   

2. Install required packagages

   sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils libboost-all-dev
   

3. Install Berkeley DB 4.8

   sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
   

4. Install QT 5

   sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev libzmq3-dev
   sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev
   

Build

1. Clone the source:

   git clone https://github.com/verticalcoin/verticalcoin
   

2. Build Verticalcoin-core:

   Configure and build the headless verticalcoin binaries as well as the GUI (if Qt is found).

   You can disable the GUI build by passing --without-gui to configure.

   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
   

3. It is recommended to build and run the unit tests:

   make check
   

vNode Setup

See (VNODE.md) for instructions.

Mining

We have a build in CPU miner. "setgenerate true 1" will activate it for 1 CPU. GPU mining on Windows is possible with ccminer https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

Mac OS X Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-osx.md) for instructions on building on Mac OS X.

Windows (64/32 bit) Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-windows.md) for instructions on building on Windows 64/32 bit.

Docker Image to build Verticalcoin (Linux/Windows)

https://github.com/verticalcoin/verticalcoin-docker/