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+Copyright (c) 2013-2015 The Anoncoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2017 GOSTCoin Developers
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
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+GOSTCoin Core
+=============
+
+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?
+-------------
+
+GOSTCoin uses Soviet and Russian government standard cryptography: 
+GOST R 34.10-2012 for signature and GOST R 34.11-2012 for hash. 
+[https://github.com/GOSTSec/gostcoin/wiki/Cryptography](More info about crypto).
+
+GOSTCoin is using [Invisible Internet](https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd) (I2P) as a secure network layer.
+
+GOSTCoin needs I2P router
+-------------------------
+
+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
+-----------------
+
+**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 dependencies:**
+
+    cd ~/gostcoin/i2psam/
+    make -f makefile.unix
+
+**Build gostcoind:**
+
+    cd ~/gostcoin/src
+    make -f makefile.unix
+
+**Optional: Build QT GUI**
+
+    # install requirements 
+    apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev
+    # build GUI
+    cd ~/gostcoin
+    qmake && make
+
+Mining tools
+------------
+
+Dedicated mining tools are available: [https://github.com/GOSTSec/cpuminer-x11-gost](cpuminer for CPU) and [https://github.com/GOSTSec/ccminer](ccminer for GPU)
+
+License
+-------
+
+GOSTCoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
+information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+