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Syscoin integration/staging tree

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/syscoin/syscoin

http://www.syscoin.org

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Syscoin Developers

What is Syscoin?

Syscoin is a merge-minable scrypt coin which provides an array of useful services which leverage the bitcoin protocol and blockchain technology.

  • 1 minute block targets, diff retarget each block using KGW(7/98)
  • 128 SysCoin and regenerated network services fees (block reward decays on fixed schedule until rewards fixate at 32 Syscoin until 2bil coin, after which rewards are purely network and service fees). Please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587080.0 for the rewards schedule table in a nice to read table format.
  • 2 billion total coins
  • Scrypt Proof-of-Work
  • Fast-response KGW difficulty adjustment algorithm
  • Merge mineable with any scrypt coin
  • Minable either exclusively or via merge-mining
  • Network service fees regenerated as subsidies

Services include:

  • Alias reservation, ownership & exchange
  • Data storage
  • Digital document storage, ownership & exchange
  • Distributed marketplate & exchange
  • Digital Services Provider marketplace & platform
  • Digital Asset Creation and Management (alpha)
  • (soon) Escrow
  • (soon) Distributed gaming
  • (soon) Distributed elections and polls
  • (soon) Distributed encrypted communication & shared content storage

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Syscoin client sofware, see http://www.syscoin.org.

License

Syscoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development process

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 Syscoin 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 (if they haven't already) on the mailing list.

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 are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Syscoin.

Testing

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:

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
./syscoin-qt_test