Copyright (c) 2014 The Mini-blockchain Project
Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Core Developers
Cryptonite (also known as Crypton) is the first cryptocurrency to implement the mini-blockchain scheme along with many other innovative features. Cryptonite is a fork of the Bitcoin core but the code has been extensively modified and expanded upon. Innovative new features include withdrawal limits and unmalleable transactions. The mini-blockchain scheme alleviates the blockchain bloat problem and therefore allows superior support for micro-transactions and arbitrary data to be stored in the blockchain.
For more information see http://cryptonite.info
Cryptonite Core 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 Cryptonite 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).
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.md) or are controversial.
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check
Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server, and unit and sanity tests are automatically run.
Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code.