http://www.marscoin.org
http://www.marscoin.org/foundation
Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Litecoin Developers
Copyright (c) 2013-2025 Marscoin Developers
Marscoin targets to become the blockchain for Mars, and functions as a proof of concept for incentivizing and privatizing space exploration funding.
- scrypt Litecoin-based cryptocurrency
- ASERT difficulty adjustment algorithm
- confirmation block every 2 Mars minutes (123 seconds)
- subsidy halves every Mars year (668 sols)
- 721 blocks per sol
- 40 million total coins by ~2025 (39569900 exactly)
- 1M donation for non-profit The Mars Society
- developed and supported by The Marscoin Foundation, LLC (a non-profit).
- check out the MartianRepublic.org for our experimental governance platform
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Marscoin client sofware, see http://www.marscoin.org and http://www.marscoinfoundation.org
The easiest way to build the repository is via the depends method:
apt update
apt install -y build-essential automake autotools-dev cmake pkg-config python3 bison git make libtool
git clone https://github.com/marscoin/marscoin
cd marscoin/depends
make HOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -j4
cd ..
./autogen.sh
CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/share/config.site ./configure
make -j4