What is mitcoin? mitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. mitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. mitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency. For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the mitcoin Core software, see https://www.mitcoin.org/en/download. License mitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. Development process 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 mitcoin 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 havent already) on the mailing list 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 doesnt match the projects coding conventions (see doc/developer-notes.md) 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 mitcoin. Testing Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other peoples pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.