bitcoin/contrib

Repository Tools

Developer tools

Specific tools for developers working on this repository. Contains the script github-merge.py for merging GitHub pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.

Verify-Commits

Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above github-merge.py script.

Linearize

Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.

Qos

A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.

Seeds

Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.

Build Tools and Keys

Packaging

The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.

All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.

Gitian-descriptors

Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the the Bitcoin Core documentation repository.

Gitian-keys

PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.

MacDeploy

Scripts and notes for Mac builds.

Gitian-build

Script for running full Gitian builds.

Test and Verify Tools

TestGen

Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.

Verify Binaries

This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.