X-Git-Url: https://git.novaco.in/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FREADME;h=9fe0a44a027c1e7df247fee78ca31d3becd7447b;hb=35a07f8ec4abbd0f6848e53a35b9520b33085c63;hp=421c83cd5357bd4fccf51d55107463ae23d49bc5;hpb=b6b039d84ed3d1616cb97ee45ff24ec343efbed0;p=novacoin.git diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 421c83c..9fe0a44 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -Bitcoin 0.3.24 BETA +Bitcoin 0.5.6 BETA -Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Bitcoin Developers +Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in @@ -18,51 +18,16 @@ with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending. Setup ----- +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 (GUI, 32-bit) + bin/32/bitcoin-qt (GUI, 32-bit) bin/32/bitcoind (headless, 32-bit) - bin/64/bitcoin (GUI, 64-bit) + bin/64/bitcoin-qt (GUI, 64-bit) bin/64/bitcoind (headless, 64-bit) -Wallet Encryption ------------------ -Bitcoin supports native wallet encryption so that people who steal your wallet -file don't automatically get access to all of your Bitcoins. In order to enable -this feature, chose "Encrypt Wallet" from the Options menu. You will be prompted -to enter a passphrase, which will be used as the key to encrypt your wallet and -will be needed every time you wish to send Bitcoins. If you lose this passphrase, -you will lose access to spend all of the bitcoins in your wallet, no one, not even -the Bitcoin developers can recover your Bitcoins. This means you are responsible -for your own security, store your password in a secure location and do not forget -it. - -Remember that the encryption built into bitcoin only encrypts the actual keys -which are required to send your bitcoins, not the full wallet. This means that -someone who steals your wallet file will be able to see all the addresses which -belong to you, as well as the relevant transactions, you are only protected from -someone spending your coins. - -It is recommended that you backup your wallet file before you encrypt your wallet. -To do this, close the Bitcoin client and copy the wallet.dat file from ~/.bitcoin/ -on Linux, /Users/(user name)/Application Support/Bitcoin/ on Mac OSX, and -%APPDATA%/Bitcoin/ on Windows (that is /Users/(user name)/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin on -Windows Vista and 7 and /Documents and Settings/(user name)/Application Data/Bitcoin -on Windows XP). Once you have copied that file to a safe location, reopen the -Bitcoin client and Encrypt your wallet. If everything goes fine, delete the backup -and enjoy your encrypted wallet. Note that once you encrypt your wallet, you will -never be able to go back to a version of the Bitcoin client older than 0.4. - -Keep in mind that you are always responsible for you own security. All it takes is a -slightly more advanced wallet-stealing trojan which installs a keylogger to steal -your wallet passphrase as you enter it in addition to your wallet file and you have -lost all your Bitcoins. Wallet encryption cannot keep you safe if you do not practice -good security, such as running up-to-date antivirus software, only entering your -wallet passphrase in the Bitcoin client and using the same passphrase only as your -wallet passphrase. - - See the documentation at the bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page - -... for help and more information. +for help and more information.