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1 | | -BitCore integration/staging tree |
| 1 | +elcome to Bitcore BTX |
2 | 2 | ===================================== |
3 | 3 |
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4 | | -[](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore) |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +[ Release-Notes ](https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcore_btx/comments/fsbzog/odarhom_release_notes_short_overview_first_draft/) - [ FAQ ](https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcore_btx/wiki/index/odarhom_faq) - [ Website ](https://www.bitcore.cc) - [ Bitcointalk ](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1883902.0) |
5 | 6 |
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6 | | -https://bitcore.cc |
| 7 | +[](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore) |
7 | 8 |
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8 | 9 | What is BitCore? |
9 | 10 | ---------------- |
10 | 11 |
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11 | | -BitCore is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to |
12 | | -anyone, anywhere in the world. BitCore uses peer-to-peer technology to operate |
13 | | -with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried |
14 | | -out collectively by the network. BitCore is also the name of open source |
15 | | -software which enables the use of this currency. |
| 12 | +Established on 24th of April 2017, BitCore from the community for the community. BitCore has one of the lowest transaction fees on the market while possibly providing the best on-chain scaling solution in the entire crypto-sphere. Take a look at our [comparison chart](https://bitcore.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/BitCoreVsAgosto2019.jpg). |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Bitcore BTX preserves and implements Bitcoin features such as SegWit, which enables advanced scaling technologies like Lightning Network. Significant differences at launch time included: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +- Unique wallet addresses (prefixes of 2 and S and btx (BIP 173 bench32) |
| 17 | +- Command Fork System |
| 18 | +- Masternode System Dash Core |
| 19 | +- 220 Byte Datacarriersize (OP_RETURN) |
| 20 | +- Hashalgorythm Timetravel10 |
| 21 | +- Bitcore Diffshield |
| 22 | +- Travis CI support |
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17 | 24 | For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of |
18 | 25 | the BitCore software, see [https://bitcore.cc](https://bitcore.cc). |
19 | 26 |
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20 | | -License |
21 | | -------- |
| 27 | +Claiming for Bitcoin holders |
| 28 | +-- |
| 29 | +Claiming for the first snapshot (Bitcoin block #463604) ended 30th of October 2017. We made a new snapshot of the Bitcoin network on 2nd of November 2017 (Bitcoin block #492820). These ~5 million addresses are able to claim BitCore BTX for free, right now! Read how to [here](https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@xwerk/bitcore-btx-guide-the-2nd-snapshot-for-btc-hodlers-free-btx-or-how-it-works). |
22 | 30 |
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23 | | -BitCore is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more |
24 | | -information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. |
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27 | 33 |
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28 | 34 | Development Process |
29 | 35 | ------------------- |
30 | 36 |
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31 | 37 | The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be |
32 | | -completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/LIMXTEC/bitcore/tags) are created |
| 38 | +completely stable. [Release](https://github.com/LIMXTEC/bitcore/release) are created |
33 | 39 | regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of BitCore. |
34 | 40 |
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35 | 41 | The contribution workflow is described in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). |
@@ -61,21 +67,11 @@ These tests can be run (if the [test dependencies](/test) are installed) with: ` |
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62 | 68 | The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically. |
63 | 69 |
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64 | | -### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing |
65 | | - |
66 | | -Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the |
67 | | -code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful |
68 | | -to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is |
69 | | -not straightforward. |
70 | | - |
71 | | -Translations |
72 | | ------------- |
73 | | - |
74 | | -We only accept translation fixes that are submitted through [Bitcoin Core's Transifex page](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcore/). |
75 | | -Translations are converted to BitCore periodically. |
| 70 | +License |
| 71 | +------- |
76 | 72 |
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77 | | -Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the |
78 | | -[translation process](doc/translation_process.md) for details on how this works. |
| 73 | +BitCore is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more |
| 74 | +information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. |
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80 | 76 | **Important**: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next |
81 | 77 | pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again. |
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