GOSTCoin Core
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GOSTCoin (GST) is a digital currency based on [blockchain ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain ) technology.
It allows instant payments worldwide with focus on privacy and security of its users.
Why GOSTCoin?
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GOSTCoin uses Soviet and Russian government standard cryptography:
[GOST R 34.10-2012 ](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7091 ) for signature and [GOST R 34.11-2012 ](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6986 ) for hash.
[More info about crypto ](https://github.com/GOSTSec/gostcoin/wiki/Cryptography ).
GOSTCoin is using [Invisible Internet ](https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd ) (I2P) as a secure network layer.
GOSTCoin needs I2P router
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Install and run [i2pd ](https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd ).
Enable SAM API in i2pd. Edit in `i2pd.conf` :
[sam]
enabled = true
and restart i2pd. Local TCP port 7656 should be available.
Building GOSTCoin
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**Install development libraries:**
apt-get install build-essential libtool libboost-all-dev git libdb++-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
**Clone repository:**
git clone https://github.com/GOSTSec/gostcoin.git ~/gostcoin
**Build gostcoind:**
cd ~/gostcoin/src
make -f makefile.unix
**Optional: Build QT GUI**
# install requirements
apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
# build GUI
cd ~/gostcoin
qmake & & make
# build GUI with QR codes and paper wallet
apt-get install libqrencode-dev
cd ~/gostcoin
qmake "USE_QRCODE=1" & & make
Mining tools
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Dedicated mining tools are available: [cpuminer for CPU ](https://github.com/GOSTSec/cpuminer-x11-gost ), [ccminer for NVIDIA GPU ](https://github.com/GOSTSec/ccminer ) and [sgminer for AMD GPU ](https://github.com/GOSTSec/sgminer )
License
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GOSTCoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING ](COPYING ) for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
