diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d5b742534..ebfa7529d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,43 +1,35 @@ -Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree +Blackcoin Lore ===================================== -[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin) +https://blackcoin.co -https://bitcoincore.org - -What is Bitcoin? +What is Blackcoin Lore? ---------------- -Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to -anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate -with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried -out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source -software which enables the use of this currency. +Blackcoin is a decentralised digital currency with near-instant transaction speeds and i +negligible transaction fees build upon Proof of Stake 3.0 as introduced by the Blackcoin development team. -For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of -the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoin.org/en/download, or read the -[original whitepaper](https://bitcoincore.org/bitcoin.pdf). +Lore takes Blackcoin to the next level by building upon Bitcoin Core 0.12 to offer performance enhancements, +wider compatibility with third party services and a more advanced base. + +For downloads vist: https://https://github.com/janko33bd/bitcoin/releases License ------- -Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more +Blackcoin Lore is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. Development Process ------------------- -The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be -completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags) are created -regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core. +The `Blackcoin-Lore` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be +completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/janko33bd/bitcoin/tags) are created +regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Blackcoin Lore. The contribution workflow is described in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). -The developer [mailing list](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev) -should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes before working -on a patch set. - -Developer IRC can be found on Freenode at #bitcoin-core-dev. +The best place to get started is to join the Development channel on Gitter: https://gitter.im/Blackcoin\_Hub/Development Testing ------- @@ -57,26 +49,9 @@ There are also [regression and integration tests](/qa) of the RPC interface, wri in Python, that are run automatically on the build server. These tests can be run with: `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py` -The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows -and Linux, OSX, and that unit and sanity tests are automatically run. - ### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward. - -Translations ------------- - -Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to -[Bitcoin Core's Transifex page](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). - -Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the -[translation process](doc/translation_process.md) for details on how this works. - -**Important**: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next -pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again. - -Translators should also subscribe to the [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bitcoin-translators).