Dear Bitcoiners,

libcoin is now in a state ready for its first release, which I would like to 
share with you!

=== libcoin is a crypto currency library based on the bitcoin/bitcoin "Satoshi" 
client. ===

Copenhagen, Denmark - 1st February 2012 Ceptacle announces the release of the 
first version of the crypto currency library "libcoin" based on the 
bitcoin/bitcoin "Satoshi" client.

libcoin also maintains a version of bitcoind that is a 100% compatible drop-in 
replacement of the bitcoin/bitcoind client: You can use it on the same computer 
on the same files and you can call it with the same scripts. And you can easily 
extend it without touching the basic bitcoin source files.

The libcoin/bitcoind client downloads the entire block chain 3.5 times faster 
than the bitcoin/bitcoind client. This is less than 90 minutes on a modern 
laptop!

In libcoin, the Satoshi client code has been completely refactored, properly 
encapsulating classes, removing all globals, moving from threads and mutexes to 
a pure asynchronous approach. Functionalities have been divided into logical 
units and libraries, minimizing dependencies for e.g. thin clients.

libcoin is chain agnostic, all chain (bitcoin, testnet, namecoin, litecoin, 
...) specific settings are maintained from a single class (Chain) and hence 
experiments with chain settings, mining, security and digital currencies for 
research and educational purposes are easily accessible. See the ponzicoin 
example for how you define your own chain.

The build system of libcoin is based on CMake and supports builds of static and 
dynamic libraries on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

The libcoin license is LGPL v. 3. This mean that you can use it in open source 
as well as in commercial projects, but improvements should go back into the 
libcoin library.

======

Read more on libcoin on: http://github.com/ceptacle/libcoin/wiki

Join libcoin on twitter: http://twitter.com/libcoin

Download "libcoin Satoshi release": 
http://github.com/ceptacle/libcoin/zipball/v0.4.0.1

Best regards,

Michael Gronager, PhD
Director, Ceptacle
Jens Juels Gade 33
2100 Copenhagen E
Mobile: +45 31 45 14 01
E-mail: grona...@ceptacle.com
Web: http://www.ceptacle.com/


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