About
Bandexcoin is an environmentally friendly, non‑profit cryptocurrency developed to create a more sustainable future. Unlike Bitcoin, which uses SHA‑256 and consumes vast amounts of energy, Bandexcoin uses Scrypt — a memory‑hard algorithm that reduces the need for energy‑intensive specialized hardware while keeping the network secure.
A 5‑minute block time allows faster confirmations than Bitcoin and many other chains. In practice: Bandexcoin needs less hardware to mine and less to run bandexcoin‑core, which means a smaller carbon footprint and a more accessible network. The project is fully open‑source on GitHub.
Our Mission
We have a short and powerful mission: a more sustainable future, and one of the first non‑profit cryptocurrencies for us and our planet.
We work closely with developers and the community and stay transparent about future plans. Only through openness can we get closer to our goal.
Technology
Algorithm
Scrypt — memory‑hard, less energy than SHA‑256.
Block Time
5 minutes for faster confirmations.
Hardware
Lower hash rate and power requirements for mining and nodes.
Governance
Non‑profit, community‑oriented, open‑source.
What is Bandexcoin?
Bandexcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bandexcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bandexcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bandexcoin Core software, see bandexcoin.io.
License
Bandexcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bandexcoin Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
The developer mailing list should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes before working on a patch set.
Developer IRC can be found on Freenode at #bandexcoin-dev.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written in Python, that are run automatically on the build server. These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
We only accept translation fixes that are submitted through Bitcoin Core's Transifex page. Translations are converted to Bandexcoin periodically.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.