Fixup README.md
Fixed build instructions, added maintainers, other small fixes
The Dagger (XDAG) cryptocurrency
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-- Community site: https://xdag.io - Developer's site: http://xdag.me
-- Main net is launched January 5, 2018 at 22:45 GMT.
+- Community site: https://xdag.io - Developer's site: http://xdag.me (now offline)
+- The Main net was launched January 5, 2018 at 22:45 GMT.
Principles:
@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@ Install and run (Linux):
- Make:
- $ cd xdag/cheatcoin
+ $ cd xdag/client
$ make
- Run, for example, the miner with 2 CPU mining threads, in daemon mode, connected to the pool xdag.me:13654
- $ ./xdag -m 2 -d xdag.me:13654
+ $ ./xdag -m 2 -d put.xdag.server.here:13654
Enter random characters: [enter]
- Run terminal connected to the daemon in the same folder:
- $ xdag -i
+ $ ./xdag -i
xdag> help
[see help]
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ Double spending is prohibited because only first concurrent transaction (by this
Structure of block:
------------------
+_The on-disk format will change in the future. Consider this the network protocol._
Each block has fixed size 512 bytes.
Block consists of 16 fields each of whish has length 32 bytes.
Field 0 is header, it consists of 4 quadwords:
@@ -114,17 +115,12 @@ Transport layer:
---------------
The dnet network is used as transport layer.
+_A new transport layer will come in the future._
-Updates:
+Maintainers:
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-Replacement SHA256 transform code from openssl project,
-modified by true ( XDAG rvKaJSbP9DE6sg6XetYtSpaK+2aDbUq8 )
+jonano614 ( gKNRtSL1pUaTpzMuPMznKw49ILtP6qX3 )
-- 50-150% speedup on Intel Core series post-Nehalem
-- 50-100% speedup on AMD Heavy Equipment cores
-- 400-500% speedup on Ryzen
-- Better use of threads than reference implementation
-
-Heat output is increased with the fast version, so you may want to continue using the old implementation on devices with poor cooling (notebooks, etc).
+true ( rvKaJSbP9DE6sg6XetYtSpaK+2aDbUq8 )
