bitcoin/doc
Jonas Schnelli f9124587cc new splash screen
why:

- the current splash-screen has no referring to official images on - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional_graphics
- the current splash screen only exists in a low res jpg
- current splash screen looks dark and "hackish"
- new splash screen should generate positive, "trust-emotions".
- new splash screen gives the user infos about the running client.
- new splash screen can handle long messages (in a lot of - languages the text is cropped in current release)

- new size (x2) 400x312

- contains textual information about the client
- textinfos are dynamicly written to the pixmap

when -testnet is switch on, the splashscreen will show the bitcoin logo in testnet-color (as well as a text [testnet])

example: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7383846/new_bitcoin_splash.png
2013-04-17 01:14:53 -07:00
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Doxyfile Bugfix: Correct English grammar regarding "'s" 2012-08-01 17:50:00 +00:00
README Bump version numbers for 0.8 release 2013-01-30 14:19:09 -05:00
README_windows.txt Bump version numbers for 0.8 release 2013-01-30 14:19:09 -05:00
Tor.txt Minor documentation updates 2012-09-05 12:38:37 -04:00
assets-attribution.txt new splash screen 2013-04-17 01:14:53 -07:00
bitcoin_logo_doxygen.png new icons: overhaul oxygen icon (was to blurry) 2013-04-08 10:37:19 +02:00
build-msw.txt Update Bitcoin to use OpenSSL 1.0.1c 2012-09-22 14:51:03 +08:00
build-osx.md reformat OS X build instrcs, add 10.8 + Homebrew 2013-02-19 21:45:39 -05:00
build-unix.txt Replace text on how to enable IPv6 with disable 2012-12-03 05:37:32 -05:00
coding.txt (finally) Remove IRC Seed support now that lfnet is down. 2013-03-24 19:38:19 -04:00
files.txt Added information about used data files 2013-01-30 18:53:05 +01:00
multiwallet-qt.txt move multiwallet-qt.txt from root to doc folder 2013-04-03 13:59:39 +02:00
readme-qt.rst remove outdated windows Qt build instructions 2013-02-16 18:59:02 +01:00
release-notes.txt Some improvements to the release notes 2013-02-10 22:50:21 +01:00
release-process.txt small update to release-process.txt 2013-04-05 11:19:52 +02:00
translation_process.md Translation update for 0.7.1 2012-10-04 08:13:37 +02:00
unit-tests.txt Bugfix: Correct English grammar regarding "'s" 2012-08-01 17:50:00 +00:00

README

Bitcoin 0.8.0 BETA

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).  This product includes
cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).


Intro
-----
Bitcoin is a free open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is
completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted
parties.  Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly
with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.


Setup
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You need the Qt4 run-time libraries to run Bitcoin-Qt. On Debian or Ubuntu:
  sudo apt-get install libqtgui4

Unpack the files into a directory and run:
 bin/32/bitcoin-qt (GUI, 32-bit)
 bin/32/bitcoind (headless, 32-bit)
 bin/64/bitcoin-qt (GUI, 64-bit)
 bin/64/bitcoind (headless, 64-bit)


See the documentation at the bitcoin wiki:
  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
for help and more information.