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Features and Specs

Specs

  • LWMA difficulty algorithm zawy12/difficulty-algorithms#3
  • Lyra2Z pow algorithm
  • vNodes
  • Tor integration
  • Blocktime: 2 minutes
  • Blocksize: 2 MB
  • Coin Maturity: 50
  • Maximum Supply: 35 million

Linux Build Instructions and Notes

Dependencies

  1. Update packages

    sudo apt-get update

  2. Install required packagages

    sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils libboost-all-dev

  3. Install Berkeley DB 4.8

    sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

  4. Install QT 5

    sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev libzmq3-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev

Build

  1. Clone the source:

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

  2. Build Verticalcoin-core:

    Configure and build the headless verticalcoin binaries as well as the GUI (if Qt is found).

    You can disable the GUI build by passing --without-gui to configure.

    ./autogen.sh
./configure
make

  3. It is recommended to build and run the unit tests:

    make check

vNode Setup

See (VNODE.md) for instructions.

Mining

We have a build in CPU miner. "setgenerate true 1" will activate it for 1 CPU. GPU mining on Windows is possible with ccminer https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

Mac OS X Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-osx.md) for instructions on building on Mac OS X.

Windows (64/32 bit) Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-windows.md) for instructions on building on Windows 64/32 bit.

Docker Image to build Verticalcoin (Linux/Windows)

https://github.com/verticalcoin/verticalcoin-docker/