Topic: Coin making guides - page 2. (Read 6502 times)

To Fork a coin, just find it on Github and click the fork icon that says "fork". If you click the part that actually has the word fork on it, it will fork the coin and you can go in and change things.


Important things to change when making a new coin:

Find and replace all of the old coin's names for your coin's name in the main.cpp file
(check for lowercase, uppercase, and also with the word "coin" uppercase and lowercase)

Find and replace all the coin identifiers and replace with yours (Ex: Changing Litecoin's [LTC] to Dogecoin's [DOGE])

Change number of coins rewarded in a block where is says "Subsidy"

Change Block time

Change Difficulty (called "Target")

Change Block height and halving time.

Genesis block to "x0" meaning you just delete all the numbers after x0, everywhere there is a genesis block.

I am not sure about forks, but with clones you want to also remove the Merkle root.

Then change the headline to a headline from that day so people know what day you made it.

Change Epoch time to the current epoch time (google "current epoch time")

Remove the Nnonce

Remove the Checkpoints (you need 1)

Change ports if you want

Making some fancy graphics

After that, it's just compiling the coin, and running it (with a fatal error on purpose) to get the Merkle and Nnonce, and mining the Genesis block. Make sure you have uncompiled code also, so you can put the Merkle and everything in it.

Then use Gitian Builder to build the wallet.

And at that point you have a coin and it just has to go up on Github and be mined.

I am going to try to make a coin this weekend and post what I am doing here as I do it, then if that doesn't work I have a friend that helped me build a coin (we had to figure this out together, which is where I got this information and why I decided to put this thread together) but we couldn't get it to compile because we used an old guide so we got '-lboost_system' errors. So if my coin doesn't work this weekend, the guy I am making a coin with is going to try the coin we have been working on on CentOS next week instead of Ubuntu (which we were using because it was in the guide), and he is better with CentOS than Ubuntu. And if that doesn't work I will just make a coin after I take some classes or when I find someone else who is interested while I am taking classes.

By the way, here is a little more backstory on what I am doing:

I have been using Bitcoin and other coins for a while, so now I am making my own coin. I have a friend that is good at programming, but he has never used coins in his life, so I am getting all the information and he is seeing if he can figure everything out. We used an old guide so we got '-lboost_system', errors, but soon we are going to try it in CentOS instead of Ubuntu and see if we can get it up and running, and now that I know a little bit more about programming (I knew a little, but creating this coin with him has helped me learn a lot more), I am probably going to try to follow one of these guides this weekend and just make one on my own and the CentOS one will either work or not, but I will have one up soon no matter what. And I am also going to be going to school for Computer Science (got awarded $13,000 per semester for classes) and learning C and Java in about a month, so I will find more people that will be interested in doing this and can maybe convince a teacher to get it to be a team effort for an entire class. But in summary, I am going to have a coin up soon no matter what, whether it is this weekend, next week, or in a few months, I will have a coin (and then many coins) up and running.

I'm looking for Cryptonote and Crpytonight cloning guides, but I found these CPU and GPU miners for Cryptonote incase anyone needs them.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/claymores-cryptonote-amd-gpu-miner-v113-638915
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/claymores-cryptonote-windows-cpu-miner-v40-647251

You can make Cryptonotes right through their website Crytonotestarter, but I am looking for a more direct guide for anyone who wants to make it outside of their network of coins.

Another guide
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-psuedo-guide-on-how-to-build-an-altcoin-help-fill-in-gaps-193025

Another guide
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-foo-and-bar-coins-a-how-to-guide-for-cutpaste-cryptocurrency-217636

Cryptonote, apparently they don't mind people making new coins and believe in plurality, which would probably be a refreshing difference in launching compared to the normal 'shitcoin' reception that most new coins get.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonote-a-complete-forking-guide-to-create-your-own-cryptonote-currency-673203

Some developer links
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8604040

Another guide
https://pastebin.com/iL9DeTTS
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cloning-a-coin-the-easy-way-in-about-twenty-minutes-1151674

Discussion about forking ETH
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2014/how-to-fork-my-own-version-of-eth

According to at least this person, cloning Ethereum is extremely easy and he says there are only 2 steps
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13857758

I can't find an Ethereum cloning guide, does anyone know where one is?

Here is the Practice coin thread on Bitcointalk
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annpra-practice-coin-learn-by-doing-1850047

Another guide
http://www.0speed.net/2016/10/24/how-to-make-an-altcoin/

Learncoin (the coin in the video guides) on Berkley's website
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~baisang/LearnCoin.pdf

Practicecoin
http://practicecoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cloning-Bitcoin-0.8.99.pdf

Another guide
https://altcoinsfoundation.com/forum/developers/56-how-to-create-your-own-cryptocurrency-altcoin-1-dev

More genesis block info
https://www.quora.com/I-want-to-create-a-new-altcoin-How-do-I-generate-the-Genesis-Block

Bitcoin protocol
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e85a/a20a544f521b9ac529027fce3cbd28dc637b.pdf

Questions and answers about genesis block
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20772606/how-to-create-a-genesis-block-of-my-altercoin
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21303/how-can-i-create-a-new-genesis-block
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/need-help-creating-genesis-block-linux-debian-651695
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--1011041

I have not actually watched this show yet, but while searching for guides I saw a coin with a name similar to the coin in the show, so I thought I would add it here. It's a show about an altcoin startup.
http://m.crackle.com/startup/2499348i

Another guide
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-create-your-own-digital-currency-get-paid-420896

Another guide
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-make-an-altcoin-1030365

A thread where someone has a problem making a coin
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/genesis-block-failed-to-find-valid-nonce-tried-all-possibilities-in-4-bytes-871564

Bitcoin cloning guide
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/twelve-step-program-for-making-yet-another-stupid-altcoin-1019508

I don't think it is about promoting and selling. Coins shouldn't be made to be promoted and sold. Coins should be made for a reason, and be attached to something. If Google made a Google coin, it would be the most popular coin in the world at the end of the first week.

A lot of people think "If only we could add just one more security feature" that the whole world would use Bitcoin or Altcoins. It's not really about that it's about making a coin for something. Making coins for a reason. Google Coin, Apple Coin, Droid Coin, iOS Coin, Facebook Coin, NASA Coin, these are all coins that would have massive market caps if those companies would make them. And everyone should look to make a coin like that. What are you a part of? Make a coin for your team, for your company, for your favorite food, or your favorite animal, etc. Just make a coin for a reason.

This is very nice, I'm sure a lot of people will benefit from your compiled list because it is so complete.

But it's not all about creating the coin, it's about promoting as well.

You should add more about promoting and selling the actual altcoin. You want people to start using your coin.

Anyways, it's a great list, love it!

I could have posted this in this thread, but I think it is better to just post the link, so that the entire discussion is here. This is part of what I did to make my coin, but here is the main things you have to change to make a coin.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1832507

Hey no problem, this was from the beginning ment for people to use since i was vexed that i couldnt find a single step-by-step guide to make my own coin, shoutout to the thread starter too, nice !

I'm sure you took a lot of time just to compile this coin and it's worth it,users will bookmark or copy your works ,thanks for taking the time I seldom see a compilation thread in this section and your work is worth it.

Thanks. This is a great guide, this thread is going to help a lot of people.