Re: How to you create a altcoin?

Quote from: Steven x869 on September 10, 2015, 08:43:21 AM

Hello, All

I have downloaded the bitcoin source files: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.

How do you create a altcoin? I want to create an exact replica of Bitcoin, except from changing the name and logo of the coin. I am creating a new project for fun. I am "NOT" trying to create a altcoin for the sole purpose of gaining profit.

(Keeping the block-time, difficulty re-targeting time, initial coins per block, coin halving configuration etc, exactly the same settings.)

Change: BitCoin [to] ExampleCoin & BTC [to] EEC
Change: BitCoin image [to] ExampleCoin image

Thanks

To give you an idea of the scale of the task, here's two of about 20 patches to rebrand Bitcoin to Dogecoin: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/commit/81e0c8ca74c05225629646de3af5236ebd6f0154 https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/commit/c11cf63209ab6cedafd61837bd904126c7c2cddc

It's a fiddly task because you want to modify only values within strings, without modifying the build setup accidentally (which is what happens if you start naively replacing "Bitcoin" with "ExampleCoin"), and must keep all of the translations in sync with your changes.