NovaCoin official development tree

NovaCoin - a hybrid scrypt PoW + PoS based cryptocurrency.

• 10 minutes stake spacing
• 30 minutes PoW spacing
• Balanced PoW blocks and stakes weighting
• The PoW subsidy halves every x8 multiply of PoW difficulty
• The PoS interest halves every x8 multiply of PoS difficulty
• Maximum PoW reward is 100 coins
• Maximum PoS reward is 10 coins
• No deterministic limit of the supply, currently ~ 2712526 coins mined

Development process

Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.

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 they don't match the project's coding conventions (see coding.txt) or are controversial.

The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are regularly created to indicate new official, stable release versions of NovaCoin.

Feature branches are created when there are major new features being worked on by several people.

From time to time a pull request will become outdated. If this occurs, and the pull is no longer automatically mergeable; a comment on the pull will be used to issue a warning of closure. The pull will be closed 15 days after the warning if action is not taken by the author. Pull requests closed in this manner will have their corresponding issue labeled 'stagnant'.

Issues with no commits will be given a similar warning, and closed after 15 days from their last activity. Issues closed in this manner will be labeled 'stale'.