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elcome to Bitcore BTX
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore.svg?branch=0.15)](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore)
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![GitHub Logo](https://i.imgur.com/jnpy4Me.jpg)
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[ 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)
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https://bitcore.cc
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore.svg?branch=0.15)](https://travis-ci.org/LIMXTEC/BitCore)
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What is BitCore?
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BitCore is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to
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anyone, anywhere in the world. BitCore uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
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with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
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out collectively by the network. BitCore is also the name of open source
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software which enables the use of this currency.
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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).
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Bitcore BTX preserves and implements Bitcoin features such as SegWit, which enables advanced scaling technologies like Lightning Network. Significant differences at launch time included:
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- Unique wallet addresses (prefixes of 2 and S and btx (BIP 173 bench32)
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- Command Fork System
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- Masternode System Dash Core
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- 220 Byte Datacarriersize (OP_RETURN)
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- Hashalgorythm Timetravel10
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- Bitcore Diffshield
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- Travis CI support
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For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the BitCore software, see [https://bitcore.cc](https://bitcore.cc).
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License
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Claiming for Bitcoin holders
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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).
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BitCore is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
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information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Development Process
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The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
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completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/LIMXTEC/bitcore/tags) are created
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completely stable. [Release](https://github.com/LIMXTEC/bitcore/release) are created
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regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of BitCore.
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The contribution workflow is described in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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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.
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### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
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Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the
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code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful
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to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is
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not straightforward.
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Translations
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We only accept translation fixes that are submitted through [Bitcoin Core's Transifex page](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcore/).
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Translations are converted to BitCore periodically.
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License
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Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the
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[translation process](doc/translation_process.md) for details on how this works.
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BitCore is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
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information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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**Important**: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next
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pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.

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