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Litecoin integration/staging tree
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http://www.litecoin.org
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Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
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Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Litecoin Developers
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What is Litecoin?
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Litecoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.
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- 2.5 minute block targets
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- subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
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- ~84 million total coins
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The rest is the same as Bitcoin.
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- 50 coins per block
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- 2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
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For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the Litecoin client sofware, see http://www.litecoin.org.
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License
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Litecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
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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
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their feature or bug fix is ready.
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If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Litecoin
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development team members simply pulls it.
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If it is a *more complicated or potentially controversial* change, then the patch
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submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
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[mailing list](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development).
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The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
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Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
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match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.txt`) or are
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controversial.
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The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
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completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags) are created
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regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Litecoin.
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Testing
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Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
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requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
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remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
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lots of money.
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### Automated Testing
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Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
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submit new unit tests for old code.
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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
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Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
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qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
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make -f Makefile.test
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./litecoin-qt_test
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