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authorswedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>2019-08-01 22:31:42 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-08-22 17:59:30 +0200
commitaf012922776cc249be45604aa295ac086a243473 (patch)
treeb50bb29cf0121fd6c8b01c1eebdf62488fe42851 /gnu/packages/finance.scm
parent6d0fb469ed9de2ec9d51ba0631f4b9b42b7f6f88 (diff)
gnu: Add bitcoin-abc.
* gnu/packages/finance.scm (bitcoin-abc): New variable. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -1111,3 +1111,31 @@ information.")
(description "This allows a Trezor hardware wallet to communicate to the
Trezor wallet.")
(license license:lgpl3+)))
+
+(define-public bitcoin-abc
+ (package
+ (inherit bitcoin-core)
+ (name "bitcoin-abc")
+ (version "0.19.8")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "https://download.bitcoinabc.org/"
+ version "/linux/src/bitcoin-abc-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0ndvkxv5m8346bdhfqzgdiz1k9wyjycj05jp7daf9pml3cw79sz5"))))
+ (home-page "https://www.bitcoinabc.org/")
+ (synopsis "Bitcoin ABC peer-to-peer full node for the Bitcoin Cash protocol")
+ (description
+ "Bitcoin Cash brings sound money to the world, fulfilling the original
+promise of Bitcoin as Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash. Merchants and users are
+empowered with low fees and reliable confirmations is a digital currency that
+enables instant payments to anyone anywhere in the world. It uses
+peer-to-peer technology to operate without central authority: managing
+transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.
+As a fork it implemented changes lowering the time between blocks and now
+offers confimations after less than 5 seconds and have significantly lower
+fees that BTC. Bitcoin ABC is the reference implementation of the Bitcoin
+Cash protocol. This package provides the Bitcoin Cash command line client and
+a client based on Qt. This is a fork of Bitcoin Core.")))