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Primecoin - Cryptocurrency with Useful PoW Consensus
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Primecoin integration/staging tree

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http://primecoin.org



Copyright (c) 2013 Primecoin Developers



Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers



Copyright (c) 2011-2013 PPCoin Developers



What is Primecoin?

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Primecoin is an experimental cryptocurrency that introduces the first

scientific computing proof-of-work to cryptocurrency technology. Primecoin's

proof-of-work is an innovative design based on searching for prime number

chains, providing potential scientific value in addition to minting and

security for the network. Similar to Bitcoin, Primecoin enables instant payments

to anyone, anywhere in the world. It also uses peer-to-peer technology to 

operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are 

carried out collectively by the network. Primecoin is also the name of the open

source software which enables the use of this currency.



For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of

the Primecoin client sofware, see http://primecoin.org.



License

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Primecoin is released under conditional MIT license. See  COPYING` for more

information.



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 Bitcoin

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

ppcoin/primecoin forum (https://talk.peercoin.net).



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.md`) or are

controversial.



The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be

completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin/tags) are

created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of

Primecoin.



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:



    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install build-essential

    sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libevent-dev libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev libminiupnpc-dev curl

    git clone https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin.git

    cd primecoin



    (In ubuntu 20.04)

    cd depends; make

    export BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH=`pwd`/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include

    export BDB_INCLUDE_PATH=`pwd`/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include

    export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_PATH=`pwd`/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include

    export BOOST_LIB_PATH=`pwd`/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib

    export BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX=-mt

    cd ..

    cd src ; make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP:=



    (For other systems)

    cd src ; make -f makefile.unix



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

    ./bitcoin-qt_test



### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing



Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other

than the developer who wrote the code.



See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.