pointcoind is a fork of Conformal's btcd

It relays newly mined blocks, maintains a transaction pool, and relays individual transactions that have not yet made it into a block. It ensures all transactions admitted to the pool follow the rules required by the block chain and also includes the same checks which filter transactions based on miner requirements ("standard" transactions) as Bitcoin Core.

One key difference between pointcoind and Bitcoin Core is that pointcoind does NOT include wallet functionality and this was a very intentional design decision. See the blog entry here for more details. This means you can't actually make or receive payments directly with pointcoind.

Go 1.2 or newer.

• Install Go according to the installation instructions here: http://golang.org/doc/install

• Run the following command to obtain pointcoind, all dependencies, and install it: $ go get github.com/PointCoin/pointcoind/...

• pointcoind (and utilities) will now be installed in either $GOROOT/bin or $GOPATH/bin depending on your configuration. If you did not already add the bin directory to your system path during Go installation, we recommend you do so now.

• Run the following command to update pointcoind, all dependencies, and install it: $ go get -u -v github.com/btcsuite/pointcoind/...

pointcoind has several configuration options avilable to tweak how it runs, but all of the basic operations described in the intro section work with zero configuration.

$ ./pointcoind

You can use the btcsuite documentation for must things. It is located in the docs folder.

pointcoind is licensed under the copyfree ISC License.