http://www.defcoin-ng.org

Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2018 Litecoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2018 Defcoin Developers

Defcoin is a fork of Litecoin which is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.

• 2 minute block targets
• 720 blocks to retarget difficulty

The rest is the same as Litecoin.

• subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
• ~84 million total coins
• 50 coins per block. Now 25 coins after first halving event

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Defcoin client sofware, see http://www.defcoin-ng.org.

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

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 defcoin 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 reddit.

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 are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of defcoin.

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/ and test/. To compile and run them:

make check
python3.4 test/functional/test_runner.py

Unit tests for the GUI code are in src/qt/test/. They are compiled with the Qt code and run with make check

The theme data for the Qt GUI is stored in src/qt/theme.h.

Rename the Defcoin units from mDFC and μDFC in favor of a more flavorful name similar to Litecoin. This is stored in the file src/qt/bitcoinunits.cpp on lines 43 - 45

    case BTC: return QString("DFC");
    case mBTC: return QString("mDFC");
    case uBTC: return QString::fromUtf8("μDFC");

and on lines 54 - 56

    case BTC: return QString("Defcoins");
    case mBTC: return QString("Milli-Defcoins (1 / 1" THIN_SP_UTF8 "000)");
    case uBTC: return QString("Micro-Defcoins (1 / 1" THIN_SP_UTF8 "000" THIN_SP_UTF8 "000)");