FirstCoin integration/staging tree
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http://www.firstcoinproject.com

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2014-2017 FirstCoin Developers

What is FirstCoin?
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FirstCoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.
 - 1 minute block targets
 - subsidy halves in 2.5M blocks (~5 years)
 - ~110 million total coins
 - 6 confirmations
 - 1 satoshi per block

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the FirstCoin client sofware, see http://www.firstcoinproject.com

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

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 FirstCoin
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/firstcoin-project/firstcoin/tags) are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of FirstCoin.

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 code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:

    cd src; make -f makefile.unix test