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As Oscar explained in the previous issue (FCM#85) there are many different types of Bitcoin alternatives, or as they’re sometimes known: alt-coins. The most popular, I think, is the Dogecoin – they’ve done some very high profile marketing such as the Jamaican Bobsled Team and the more recent Josh Wise NASCAR race. So, let’s take the Dogecoin wallet source and compile it. Although this article is discussing the Dogecoin wallet, this procedure can be used for the vast majority of alt-coin wallets. First, we need the tools to compile the source. In a terminal type (all one line): sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libdb-dev libdb++-dev libqrencode-dev qt4-qmake libqtgui4 libqt4-dev libminiupnpc-dev libminiupnpc8 libboost-all-dev build-essential git Get Git Now, we need some source to compile. In the same terminal type: git clone https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin.git What we’ve done there is copy the Dogecoin wallet source to our machine at /home/dogecoin. Next, we need to enter the Dogecoin wallet folder. So, type: cd dogecoin

Now we’re in the right place; we need to run a global-modify (-i = in-place) of the source. Type: sed -i 's/-mgw46-mt-sd-1_53//g' dogecoin-qt.pro Make We can finally make something now. Type: qmake USE_UPNP=- USE_QRCODE=0 USE_IPV6=0 When that’s complete, type: make -j3 And when that’s done, we’re done. To run the Dogecoin wallet you type: ./dogecoin-qt Or you can use your desktop environment to double-click the dogecoin-qt icon.

The wallet, on first run, will need to sync with the Dogecoin network and it will take a while. I’m talking many hours. It effectively has to download a ledger of every transaction. That’s a lot. If you were to compile the Reddcoin wallet, then you’d simply replace all instances of ‘dogecoin’ (in the above commands) with ‘reddcoin’. Same with Litecoin. It’s that simple. For example: git clone https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin.git would become: git clone https://github.com/reddcoin/reddcoin.git and so on. Next issue I’ll discuss the dualminer USB widget I bought a couple of months ago, and show how I finally managed to get it mining in Linux. To the moon!