Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant payments to
anyone in the world. It is based on the Bitcoin protocol but differs from
Bitcoin in that it can be efficiently mined with consumer-grade hardware.
Litecoin provides faster transaction confirmations (2.5 minutes on average) and
uses memory-hard, scrypt-based mining proof-of-work algorithm to target the
regular computers and GPUs most people already have. The Litecoin network is
scheduled to produce 84 million currency units.
One of the aims of Litecoin was to provide a mining algorithm that could run at
the same time, on the same hardware used to mine bitcoins. With the rise of
specialized ASICs for Bitcoin, Litecoin continues to satisfy these goals. It is
unlikely for ASIC mining to be developed for Litecoin until the currency is
widely used.
===> The following configuration options are available for litecoin-utils-0.21.4_14:
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
HARDENING=on: Attempt to harden binaries (PIE for ASLR, NX Stack)
TESTS=off: Build test binary and unit tests
ZMQ=on: Block and transaction broadcasting with ZeroMQ
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
net-p2p/litecoin: update to 0.21.2.1
Summary: update litecoin and associated port to latest version
Test Plan:
poudriere testport -j 13_0-amd64 net-p2p/litecoin
poudriere bulk -C -j 13_0-amd64 net-p2p/litecoin net-p2p/litecoin-daemon
net-p2p/litecoin-utils
install litecoin-daemon and litecoin-utils test locally in regression mode
Reviewed by: arrowd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35969
Update to 0.17.1 release and add the option (default enabled) to use
a newer BDB version (sync with bitcoin port).
PR: 240058
Submitted by: ale
Approved by: maintainer
net-p2p/litecoin: update to 0.14.2
While here, add rc script for litecoin-daemon
PR: 222343
Submitted by: Christopher Hall <hsw@bitmark.com> (with changes)
net-p2p/litecoin: Update to 0.10.2.2
While here, clean up and add a litecoin-utils port
PR: 201154
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>