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Insacoin

https://crypto-lyon.fr

What is Insacoin?

Insacoin is a coin forked from Litecoin and built during a lesson at INSA lyon. This project might be upgraded and updated by students and members of the association.

Installation process

On Debian 9 :

Building from source :

git clone https://github.com/Crypto-lyon/INSAcoin && cd INSAcoin
su -c 'apt install libboost-all-dev miniupnpc build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl1.0-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils python3 software-properties-common libminiupnpc-dev libzmq3-dev libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler wget git qt5-default'
su -c './scripts/install_libdb4.8.sh amd64' # Depending on your achitecture
# OR
su -c './scripts/install_libdb4.8.sh i386' # Si vous êtes en 32bits
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
su -c 'make install'
insacoin-qt

Installing the package

curl -O https://github.com/Crypto-lyon/INSAcoin/releases/download/v0.10/insacoin_0.10-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i insacoin_0.10-1_amd64.deb
insacoin-qt

On macos (tested on 10.11.6):

brew install autoconf automake openssl@1.1 libtool boost@1.59 --c++11 miniupnpc openssl pkg-config protobuf --c++11 qt5 berkeley-db4
# If not linked in /usr/local/
brew link --force openssl@1.1
brew link boost@1.59 --force
brew link --force berkeley-db4
git clone https://github.com/Crypto-lyon/INSAcoin
./autogen.sh
./configure CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11"
make -j 4
sudo make install

Be sure to have xcode installed.

Using binaries

You can fetch a dmg image with binaries for daemon, cli, and GUI here :
https://github.com/Crypto-lyon/INSAcoin/releases/download/v0.10/insacoin.dmg

Why insacoin ?

In order to teach the use of a node and how Bitcoin-like network actually works, Crypto Lyon organized a series of meetup (called "from shiba to whale") in order to start a new network from scratch (insacoin) and learn by doing. If you want to know more about it :

License

Insacoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.