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Litecoin integration/staging tree
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http://www.litecoin.org
Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Litecoin Developers
What is Litecoin?
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Litecoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.
- 2.5 minute block targets
- subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
- ~84 million total coins
The rest is the same as Bitcoin.
- 50 coins per block
- 2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the Litecoin client sofware, see http://www.litecoin.org.
License
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Litecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Development process
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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 Litecoin
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 with the devs and community.
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](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/tags) are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Litecoin.
Testing
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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.
### Automated Testing
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:
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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
./litecoin-qt_test