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SideCoin

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The sidecar to Bitcoin's motorcycle. SideCoin is a fork of Bitcoin v. 0.9.1.

Sidecoin allows you to take a snapshot of bitcoin's blockchain distribution and put it into a new blockchain

- P2P port: 6543 (16543 for testnet)
- RPC port: 6544 (16544 for testnet)

Installation

If you're on a somewhat recent version of Ubuntu, you can install using:

$ ./install.sh

OS X Build Instructions

use brew to get boost

Install using: ./autogen.sh sudo ./configure --with-boost=/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.55.0_2/ --with-incompatible-bdb --with-qt make

Make the sidecoin directory in /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/Sidecoin

Copy the sidecoin.conf file to that directory, also create a dir in that dir called balances and place the balances.txt inside that folder.