sirvon/kobocoin

Kobocoin is an African peer-to-peer micropayment system and digital currency similar to Bitcoin.

Kobocoin

A micropayment system and digitial currency similar to Bitcoin.

Kobocoin is PoS, optimised for mobile phone usage, and has an African heritage.

• Ticker : KOBO
• RPC Port : 3341
• P2P Port : 9011
• Algorithm : X15 PoW/PoS
• PoS Started on block 43,200 (PoW end - 25th February, 2015)
• Approx number of coins in circulation after PoW end : 23,500,000
• Max Coins : 350,000,000
• PoS currency growth per year : 10%
• Max stake age : No max
• Min stake age : 24 hrs
• Timings of block (in seconds) : 60
• Coins per Block : 1,000
• 50 confirmations required for mined blocks
• No premine

Building Kobocoind (daemon) and kobocoin-qt (wallet/GUI)

• Ubuntu 16.04 recommended
• Use Docker? Click here to docker build your v2.1.0.3 container

1. Install dependencies and download source code

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libqrencode-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
git clone git://github.com/kobocoin/Kobocoin
sudo chmod -R 775 Kobocoin

2. Build Kobocoind (daemon)

goto <installDirectory>/Kobocoin/src/
cp makefile.unix Makefile
make
strip Kobocoind

3. Build kobocoin-qt (wallet/GUI)

goto <installDirectory>/Kobocoin/
qmake
make
strip kobocoin-qt