tendermint/README.md

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**NOTICE** A ton of the non-consensus logic is being refactored in prepration for the testnet which will be available around the end of this year 2014.  Some people have asked me about licensing -- in the minimum all source code will be available via a copyleft license such as GPLv3 or the AGPL.  MIT and other very liberal licenses are being considered, but I'm a kopimist at heart, so until then, forget the copyright system.  For my true peers, my publishing this code is good enough.

Tendermint in Golang

Tendermint is a completely decentralized byzantine consensus protocol suitable for use in cryptocurrencies.

This project is a reference implementation of the protocol.

## Submodules

* **[consensus](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/consensus):** core consensus algorithm
* **[state](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/state):** application state; mutated by transactions
* **[blocks](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/blocks):** structures of the blockchain
* **[mempool](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/mempool):** gossip of new transactions
* **[merkle](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/merkle):** merkle hash trees
* **[p2p](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/p2p):**  extensible P2P networking

## Requirements

[Go](http://golang.org) 1.2 or newer.

## Build

[![Build Status](https://drone.io/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/status.png)](https://drone.io/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/latest)

```
go get github.com/tendermint/tendermint/...
go build -o tendermint github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd
```

## Run

`./tendermint daemon`

## Resources

IRC Channel: #tendermint on freenode