From 81b2d877fbae9f99444e0393ff4514ea999ff1ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Andresen Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:06:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a473c87e..80af3424 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ -Bitcoin subversion clone -======================== -This branch is a clone of the subversion tree, kept up-to-date via 'git svn fetch'. +Bitcoin TEST network source code +================================ + +Branches here: + +* svn : up-to-date mirror of the 'production' Bitcoin (from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/). +* listtransactions: Implements new JSON-RPC command "listtransactions" (from jgarzik) +* refundtransaction : Implements new JSON-RPC command "refundtransaction" + +These branches operate on the TEST network: + +* svnTEST : just like 'svn' (no additional features), but patched to operate on the TEST network. +* master : runs on the TEST-network with any of what I think are "production-ready" features. + +Important changes on the master branch are: + +* Listen port is 18333 (instead of 8333). Uses 18332 for JSON-RPC (instead of 8332). +* Uses irc.lfnet.org channel #bitcoinTEST for bootstrapping. +* Never tries to connect to "well known" nodes for bootstrapping. +* Uses bitcoinTEST for the default data directory (e.g. ~/.bitcoinTEST on Linux, %APPDATA%/BitcoinTEST on Windows, etc) +* Uses a different ADDRESSVERSION for Bitcoin Addresses (0xff instead of 0x0), so you can't screw up copying and pasting Bitcoin addresses (if you try to use a TEST address on the production system it will tell you it's invalid; you can, however, lose TESTcoins by trying to send them to a valid production address) +* Has a brand-new block chain (with a different genesis block) +* Initial difficulty is 4 times easier than production Bitcoin +* protocol message header bytes are { 0xfa, 0xbf, 0xb5, 0xda } instead of { 0xf9, 0xbe, 0xb4, 0xd9 } + +Code is hosted at github: http://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcoin-git +