Please note that experience with compiling and operating a Peercoin node in developer-like environment is required to participate in this test. To assist the developers with testing you must know how to compile the Peercoin source-code and submit logs if you experience some problems.

With this public testing we’ll make the testnet switch to v0.6 protocol and learn if the branch is ready for deployment to mainnet.

Fetch latest code from github:

git clone https://github.com/peercoin/peercoin

cd peercoin

checkout RC1 branch with the fork logic:

git checkout ppc-0.6-rc1

Build

proceed to build the daemon or the QT wallet:

qmake-qt5 && make

( qmake -qt=qt5 && make on Ubuntu 17.04)

Run

Run the node with the -testnet flag.

Mint some blocks

If you have no testnet coins, post your testnet address bellow and some will be sent to you.

###Redownloading Blockchain

hrobeers: hrobeers: v0.6 uses the new leveldb database for storing the blockchain, this is incompatible with the old database.

You should redownload the blockchain, you can do this my removing all files except the wallet.dat file.

P.S

For windows users, here is win32 build:

sha256sum: 9c05fbc1aab1fa5c9bda24f9f13a5411cd85a498f00d8619947fdb991279e406